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TORONTO — Tickets were available.

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Reds. Golds. Platinums. You name it. The morning of the game, you could still get as many as six seats together. By game time, scalpers outside the arena were getting desperate to unload tickets that earlier in the season would have been snatched up at a premium.

Not anymore.

It’s been said over and over again that the Toronto Maple Leafs have some of the most loyal fans in all of sports. But that unwavering loyalty apparently has a limit. And all it took was the team losing 30 of their last 36 games.

The Leafs’ announced attendance for Monday night’s 2-1 loss to the Minnesota Wild was a season-low 18,366. It was the lowest attendance figure in the 16-year history of the Air Canada Centre and the second time this season — the team drew 18,754 against Colorado in the fourth game of the season — that the team failed to reach a sell-out capacity (18,819).