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Leafs Abomination by Michael Grange and Dave Feschuk

With the new season upon us again, eternally hopeful/masochistic fans of the Toronto Maple Leafs are hoping for a Stanley Cup - their first Stanley Cup since 1967. There are reasons for hope once again: Brian Burke and his love of "truculence," an improved blue line and a young scorer will help the Leafs get back into the playoff race. But they are not anywhere near Stanley Cup contenders yet. Blame history, so says the new book Leafs AbomiNation: The dismayed fans' handbook to why the Leafs stink and how they can rise again . Authors Michael Grange of The Globe And Mail and Dave Feschuk of the Toronto Star take a long, painful look back at the past 40 years, simply highlighting all the incompetence and underachievement along the way. It's almost a checklist of what went wrong. And it is a long list. Buy The Book | Amazon.ca - Chapters - Amazon.com | The authors spend much of the book blaming the various owners and managers for the team’s perennial mediocrity, draw...