"What about you has proven that you're a great hockey team? The fact that you're now .500? The fact that you're in the bottom half of defensive teams in the NHL? Like, where is the greatness coming from with you guys? What is the great thing about your hockey team right now? What is it? Because there's not a stat that says it.
What is it that says you're a great hockey team right now? Point to those things and people will say them. People will give you the credit you deserve if you're really a great hockey team.
You don't think people here are dying to give you that credit? You don't think people here have been dying for a winner their entire lives, their entire existence as Toronto Maple Leafs fans and media? You think we want to be saying 'oh crap, let's crap on these guys, let's dump on these guys after another blown lead,'? You're not frustrated? You're not frustrated, Mitch? You feel like you're playing some great hockey? You're doing moral victories this many years into it? I get it, he's trying not to pile on, but this is only making it worse. This is what I hate about this group. They don't hate losing. They don't. They don't hate losing and there is a lack of accountability with the core... But these guys, it's always somebody else. It's always something else. It's always someone that's against them, and, God, if they didn't have all that to overcome, they might just be able to do it... it's tiresome and it needs to stop one way or the other."
