# Leafs make the playoffs.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leafs-make-the-playoffs/656302>\
**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [April 21, 2013, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leafs-make-the-playoffs/656302 "2013-04-21T12:41:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![D18](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c57346/32.png) [@D18](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D18)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2013, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leafs-make-the-playoffs/656302/1 "2013-04-21T12:41:06Z")

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😃

[And in other news](http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/story/?id=421309), faster than light travel turns out to be possible and cheap; cancer has been cured; and the Vatican declares the next pope has to be a woman.

How will they break our hearts this year?

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**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2013, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leafs-make-the-playoffs/656302/2 "2013-04-21T14:24:08Z")

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Changed the title as your request.

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**Author:** ![LC\_Strawhouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e19adc/32.png) [@LC\_Strawhouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LC_Strawhouse)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2013, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leafs-make-the-playoffs/656302/3 "2013-04-21T15:23:54Z")

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I’m an anti-Leaf bigot, so I’m a mess over this. I can’t tell whether to weep or vomit.

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**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2013, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/leafs-make-the-playoffs/656302/4 "2013-04-21T16:01:40Z")

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It’s so weird to see Toronto reacting to making the playoffs as if they won something. In most hockey cities, making the playoffs is a rudimentary expectation, not an occasion for celebration. After all, more than half the teams make the playoffs every year. But this year clinching a playoff spot (which has been a near-certainty for weeks; they could have lost last night and lost every game they had left and they would still have very likely been in the playoffs) is treated like they won the Stanley Cup.

Of course, prior to 2005, the Leafs, like most teams, made the playoffs more often than not, so this may be a one off thing.