This isn’t the way it’s meant to be. We’re in to the nitty-gritty stage of the NHL season and not only are the Toronto Maple Leafs very much in contention for a playoff place, but they are getting some solid goaltending along the way. If it isn’t the strong play of Jonas ‘The Monster’ Gustavsson, it’s the back-to-back shutouts by James Reimer, that has the local media declaring it a ‘goalie crisis’ for the Leafs.

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Welcome to a new series called Always Next Year, in which I take a lighthearted, satarical, none-to-serious look at the always optimistic world of Toronto sports. I mean if you cannot laugh at yourself, who can you laugh at? Saying that, there is nothing factually incorrect about the name of this series, for I would be willing to bet the sentence, “Well, there’s always next year,” or “Maybe we’ll do it next year” are spoken more in this city, than any other city on the planet combined.

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