The Bodog betting website has listed the Toronto Maple Leafs at 25-1 odds of winning the Stanley Cup in 2014, but Time Leiweke, the new president of Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment, is obviously an optimistic man.?Leiweke made headlines recently when he said he has already planned out Toronto?s Stanley Cup parade route.
Leiweke also ordered that photos of the former Leafs greats be taken down at the Air Canada Centre so that the team that hasn?t won the Cup since 1967 could focus on the future instead of the past.
All this prompted?Stu Hackel of SI.com to write: ?In one sense, none of these things, nor the attention they?ve gotten, is surprising. No team in hockey commands more notice than the Maple Leafs for accomplishing little or nothing. Put this same team with the same record of missteps and mediocrity during the last decade in, oh, let?s say, Atlanta, and so few people would care that there would be little sense in keeping the franchise in Georgia.?
Wrote Cathal Kelly of the Toronto Star: ?This is the first lesson of Tim Leiweke. He has come to Toronto to win things. More importantly, he has come here to write himself into history.?
Wrote Dave Feschuk of the Toronto Star: ?So this is the new reality of Leiweke?s reign as CEO of Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment. No matter that long-suffering fans of the blue and white wallow in the emotional angst of a circa-1967 Stanley Cup drought. Leiweke, for his part, is acting as though the history of the franchise began the moment he took over his gig on June 30.?
As always, it should be fun to watch the Leafs saga next season.
(Photo by Tyler Anderson/National Post)
Source: http://blogs.montrealgazette.com/2013/07/31/despite-25-1-odds-leafs-planning-stanley-cup-parade/
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