Toronto Maple Leafs: Five Predictions That Might Just Happen

Toronto Maple Leafs: Five Predictions That Might Just Happen by Tim Chiasson

The Toronto Maple Leafs and Montreal Canadiens have one of the oldest rivalries in the National Hockey League.

As a Toronto Maple Leafs fan there was nothing better than a Habs-Leafs game growing up – but has that all changed now?

Thanks to a decade of opposite directions, the Toronto Maple Leafs vs Montreal Canadiens games don’t seem to have the same zing to them anymore. They just feel like another game on the schedule.

Recently, Boston Bruins forward Max Talbot took to the streets in Montreal undercover as ‘Tim the Interviewer’ only to find out three things:

1) No one knows who Max Talbot is.

2) Being a fan of anyone but the Montreal Canadiens in Montreal is illegal and;

3) The Boston Bruins are the Habs biggest rival.

Every person in the video that was asked who the biggest rival was said the Bruins. There wasn’t any mention of the Toronto Maple Leafs.

Thanks to a decade of constant disappointment, the Toronto Maple Leafs aren’t of much interest to anyone anymore. Teams have moved on – and that’s not good, because it means this team has been irrelevant for too long.

When you used to watch a Toronto-Montreal game you feel the hatred through the television screen. You knew that both teams despised each other and the game was more physical and entertaining than normal. It just doesn’t feel like that anymore.

Judging by what the local fans in Montreal said (or didn’t say), the Leafs/Habs rivalry is seemingly dead for now. So now it’s time for Leafs fans to weigh in.

Do you think the Montreal-Toronto rivalry has anything left to it, or is it just another game?

Comment if you think there’s another team out there that the Leafs may be bigger rivals with right now.