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Love them or hate them, they’re the most successful team in professional hockey … just not on the scoresheet.
The Toronto Maple Leafs are an exception to every law of the sporting jungle. They miss the playoffs and the sellouts keep coming. They haven’t won a Stanley Cup since 1967, but the earning power of that blue-and-white maple leaf, no matter the chronic woes of the blue-and-white’s power play, never ceases to increase. In this description of failure and prescription for hope, Toronto Star sports columnist Dave Feschuk and Globe and Mail sports reporter Michael Grange draw the illogical roadmap that pinpoints how the once-proud Leafs got lost in the sporting hinterlands, who’s to blame for stranding them there, and how they might extract themselves from this historic mire.
The Toronto Maple Leafs are an exception to every law of the sporting jungle. They miss the playoffs and the sellouts keep coming. They haven’t won a Stanley Cup since 1967, but the earning power of that blue-and-white maple leaf, no matter the chronic woes of the blue-and-white’s power play, never ceases to increase. In this description of failure and prescription for hope, Toronto Star sports columnist Dave Feschuk and Globe and Mail sports reporter Michael Grange draw the illogical roadmap that pinpoints how the once-proud Leafs got lost in the sporting hinterlands, who’s to blame for stranding them there, and how they might extract themselves from this historic mire.
About the Author
Dave Feschuk is a columnist for The Toronto Star who has written on a variety of sports, from hockey to hoops. His work on hockey has been nominated for a National Newspaper Award, cited in The Best American Sportswriting and included in The Way It Looks From Here: Contemporary Canadian Writing on Sports. Michael Grange is a sports reporter for The Globe and Mail and an award-winning magazine writer, writing in Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment for much of his 14-year tenure at Canada’s national newspaper, the New York Times, and ESPN.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Good Deconstruction of the Maple Leafs' Woes,
By Walter Kovacs "Rorschach" (Belleville, ON Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Leafs AbomiNation: The dismayed fan's handbook to why the Leafs stink and how they can rise again (Paperback)
"Leafs Abomination" is an informative and funny take on the languishing Leafs teams of the last four decades. For the most part, the authors do a good job of scouring old books and newspapers while conducting their own illuminating interviews. There are plenty of interesting stories that I had not heard. However, the end-of-chapter "The Leafs Do It Again" segments felt tacked on. Yes, they showed some good examples of ineptitude within the Leafs organization but they usually had nothing to do with their specific chapter.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Book FULL of errors - who knows what else is made up / speculation,
This review is from: Leafs AbomiNation: The dismayed fan's handbook to why the Leafs stink and how they can rise again (Paperback)
I bought it, read it and regretted it.
The problem is that there are so many statistical errors, that I don't if I should believe the new information presented to me in this book. Below is a sample of the stupid errors. P.xxii-xxiii Re: Ducks Stanley Cup "....Scott Niedermayer, the Ducks defenceman who was named the MVP of Anaheim's Cup-winning run in 1997...." This is obviously a type-o (I hope), as the Ducks wont the cup in 2007 P. 64 Re: Gary Valk and Tie Domi's commentss "Scoring the series winner in overtime in game six of the second round of the 1996 playoffs at Mellon Arena...." Right situation, but the wrong year. Valk's goal OT winner was in 1999, making perfect sense as that was one four appearances for the Leafs in the Conference finals (since the league moved to a 16 team playoff format). In the `96 playoffs the Leafs went out in the first round to St. Louis. I find it difficult to understand how you could make such a glaring error. Your research is either poor, or you were writing based on memory. In any case, the inaccurate content is shocking. P.112 Re: John Ferguson with Dallas Stars when the won the Stanley Cup "....was promoted to the director of player personnel for the Dallas Stars during a successful string of seasons that culminated in the Stars; 1998 Stanley Cup....." Dallas won the 1999 Stanley Cup. Detroit won the cup in 1998 (back to back cups from 1997) P. 201 Re; Wendel Clark Game 6 Hat Trick "While Clack was a reliable big-game player (and who will forget his hat trick in Game 6 of the '94 conference final?)....." The Leafs were ousted in 5 games by Vancouver in the `94 conference finals. Clearly you must be talking about his game 6 hat-trick in LA during the `93 conference finals. I really fail to understand how you got this one wrong. In the last 20 years, that `93 playoff run is easily the most recounted in Leaf land. Clark's game 6 hat trick, the non-call on Gretzky's high stick (on Gilmour), everyone remembers watching that. The Fraser non-call is one of, if not the most famous controversial incidents in modern Leafs history P. 247 Re: Capitals vs Penguins in "conference finals", 2009 "Perhaps the best came in the Eastern Conference final, when the Pittsburgh Penguins and Washington Capitals.......played an epic seven game series...." The Pens and Cap's met in the Eastern Conference semi-finals (second round). The Pens took out the Canes in Eastern Conference finals that year,
2 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
depressing and hilarious even for us non-Make Belief fans,
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This review is from: Leafs AbomiNation: The dismayed fan's handbook to why the Leafs stink and how they can rise again (Paperback)
The book covers most of the ground as to why the Laffs fail season after season with a strong focus more on the post-Pal Hal era. This is both good and bad. I found the whole discussion of the current Ontario Teachers' Pension Fund ownership of the Leafs dull as reading any business report.
It's also laughable to learn that even 4th line plumbers are fawned over by women and men alike in T.O. The comparison with Cubs fans also worked for me as I've always considered Make Belief fans as such without the "lovable" losers part really but with that myopic faith in the blue and white. Overall, though, this book really offers not much new, if you live anywhere in Canada, you get all the Leaf news you can stomach on TSN, Sportsnet and Hockey Night in Tarrana (oops, Canada). I actually found the short blurbs on various Leaf trades far more interesting than the main text of this book. The main problem is although the cover shows the publisher had humor, the authors do not. It's written in such a dry style you now realize why newspapers are dying. This is the way these two sports journalists write anyway and it's not really riveting text. Sort of like the Leafs themselves, a fascinating soap opera but in the end annoying to those of us who live outside of southern Ontario and can't escape news on the team no matter how hard we try.
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