Twitter roasts Maple Leafs after they blow 3-1 series lead to Canadiens

The Toronto Maple Leafs just blew a 3-1 series lead to the Montreal Canadiens and Twitter is rightfully letting them hear it. 

Three things are certain in life. Death, taxes, and the Toronto Maple Leafs disappointing their fans. For the fifth consecutive year, the Toronto Maple Leafs will be heading home after making the postseason, yet failing to win a single postseason series.

While the Montreal Canadiens deserve a ton of credit for coming back from a 3-1 deficit and allowing the Leafs to force overtime in both Games 5 and 6, the ultimate narrative is this – the Leafs choked again.

The Leafs are no strangers to heartbreaking, soul-crushing losses. Remember 2013, when the Leafs had a 4-1 lead in Game 7 with under 15 minutes left in the game and the Boston Bruins proceeded to not just tie the game in regulation, but win it in overtime?

How about just last season, when the Leafs were down 3-0 to the Columbus Blue Jackets in Game 4 of their best-of-five game series? They proceeded to storm back with four unanswered goals to force Game 5, only to get shutout and lose the series.

I could go on, but I don’t have all night and I’m sure Leafs fans are begging me to stop. As bad as 2013 and 2020 were, this year feels worse. The Leafs gave their fans so much hope after winning three straight games after captain John Tavares was injured in Game 1. But just like Lucy always pulled the football away from Charlie Brown just before he kicked it, the Leafs couldn’t help themselves. They choked.

The Leafs deserve to be roasted over open flames. They had every going in their favor and somehow still managed to find a way to lose three consecutive games to the Canadiens. Twitter provided a ton of entertainment and gasoline for the roasting.

Twitter lets the Maple Leafs have it

The Canadiens will go on to face the Winnipeg Jets in the second round. Should be an interesting series with two star goaltenders squaring off. Connor Hellebuyck is arguably the best active American-born goalie and Carey Price certainly made a statement this series that he’s still arguably one of the best active Canadian-born goalies.