With the NHL All Star Game happening this upcoming Sunday (January 30), tonight (January 25), in Tampa, is the last game of the month of January for the Toronto Maple Leafs!
Informally, I have been tracking the Leafs' results for the last three games of each month of this 2010/2011 season...it does not look good for Leafs' fans...including this month; they have not had a winning record in the last 3 games of any month this year:
October:
Win against Florida, Shutout losses to both Boston and the New York Rangers
November:
Losses against Ottawa, Buffalo & the Tampa Bay Lightning
December:
Win vs. New Jersey Devils; Losses against Carolina & Columbus Blue Jackets
January:
Losses to Washington & Carolina; awaiting results of tonight's game vs. Tampa Bay Lightning
As I noted earlier, this is very informal, but does clearly show the pattern the Leafs have put together in terms of continuing to string along a lot of losses and not enough wins; a similar pattern found over the previous 5 seasons as well!
Along with the posting "Fun With Numbers" from back on January 20, many of you sports stats fanatics can have a lot of fun coming up with some rationale behind why the Leafs continue to perform poorly year after year despite being the most financially sound and successful franchise in the NHL.
And as fans, we continue to come back to the games even though we know the results over 2/3 of the time...especially at the end of the month!
Update-January 25-10:10PM Eastern
January has now become another month where the Leafs have gone 0-3 in the last three games of the month...just lost to Tampa Bay, 2-0!
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