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Thursday, April 03, 2008

Maclean's studies 'curse' of Leafs (Maclean's/habsinsideout.com)

Our friend Dave Stubbs of the Montreal Gazette, who does such an outstanding job on the habsinsideout.com website gave this heads up about this Maclean's magazine article:


"Worth a note, even if it's a free ad for Maclean's magazine..."

Quoting from Maclean's:

God hates the blue and white – at least, that’s what the citizens of Leafs Nation would like to believe. After 41 years of failure, supernatural explanations start to seem pretty attractive, especially when hard facts are just too painful to face. The list of disappointments could fill volumes, and now this: For the first time in Leafs history, they’ve been eliminated from the playoffs for a third consecutive season. It’d be tempting to say the team has hit rock bottom, but it’s not clear they’re done digging.

It’s not bad luck. It’s not a curse. The Toronto Maple Leafs’ mediocrity is all about economics. This week, Maclean’s deputy managing editor Steve Maich provides a point-by-point deconstruction of the Leafs' legacy of failure: how 40 years of constant internal disarray, short-term thinking and cultural decay has yielded massive profits and little else worth celebrating. In this portrait of a team that’s built to fail, Maich reveals why building a chronic loser is harder than you think.

http://www.habsinsideout.com/main/6189

Here's the Maclean's article:
http://www.macleans.ca/canada/national/article.jsp?content=20080402_25296_25296

But don't miss the Maclean's cover - the image may be found at the habsinsideout.com link listed above.

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