Back in the old days, fans in Sundin and Tucker sweaters used to bring traffic to a stand-still on Yonge Street whenever the Leafs won a playoff game. The revelry tends to be a little more confined these days. But still, it resonates. (reporterchris)
TORONTO — Back in the old days, fans in Sundin and Tucker sweaters used to bring traffic to a stand-still on Yonge St. whenever thewon a playoff game. They’d literally run up and down the middle of one of Canada’s busiest streets high-fiving strangers in celebration of moving 1/16th of the way closer to the Stanley Cup.
There is probably nothing that can adequately prepare Muzzin or his teammates for what they might see here on Easter Sunday, should they manage to beat theIt will be part-civic celebration, part-laying of the ghosts. Insert your resurrection headlines here. Ahead of Game 6, the Leafs even had Boston coach Bruce Cassidy questioning whether they had dug their own hole or been forced into a corner.
There would be a little built-in symbolism if they finally got over the hump against a Bruins team that has had their number. That’s how they’re looking at it.
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