Leafs will try to say "but your players are canadians" to which the response is always to point out that theyse guys GLADLY leave their home country to come play in Tampa and Dallas and Pittsburgh and Boston and Maryland and Colorado and even Detroit and Chicago, just to get away.
You would think eventually, by accident, rule of averages would mean one of the 7 Canadian teams would win, a near third of the entire league, since the year 1993, but nope, only once in the past 20 years has a team even gotten close in the finals.
Leafs will try to say "but your players are canadians" to which the response is always to point out that theyse guys GLADLY leave their home country to come play in Tampa and Dallas and Pittsburgh and Boston and Maryland and Colorado and even Detroit and Chicago, just to get away.
You would think eventually, by accident, rule of averages would mean one of the 7 Canadian teams would win, a near third of the entire league, since the year 1993, but nope, only once in the past 20 years has a team even gotten close in the finals.