The mood in Leafs Nation has been pretty somber lately, with the team only winning four of its last 11 games. As Dom Luszczyszyn recently pointed out, teams that go into the playoffs on a cold streak have a lower chance of advancing past the first round, which has a lot of fans tempering their expectations heading into another first round matchup with the Bruins. So, what exactly has been going on with Toronto lately?



In a word: goaltending (or as I like to call it – “voodoo”).



If you’re looking for a way to gauge fan optimism in one chart, there it is. We tend to be really happy when elite goaltending leads to unsustainably great results (e.g. the first few months of this season for Toronto), but when the save percentage pendulum swings the other way, it feels like the sky is falling. It’s important to note that every fan base goes through this in an 82-game season, but that doesn’t make it any easier on our blood...