from Mike Vaccaro of the New York Post,

Look, it’s likely you won’t have a dog in the Stanley Cup hunt in the weeks to come (unless you’re the Devils, and even if you get some playoff run you have a vested interest in this, too; I’ll explain soon). But if you’re a hockey fan, you’re still going to watch the Cup playoffs because they’re one of the greatest things going in sports right now. And even if you’re a casual fan, they can be awfully awesome.

Anyway, I have five handy reasons why you should adopt the Leafs this year:...

- The only comparable thing in American sports would be if the Yankees had a 51-year drought (and remember how it felt like our world was topsy-turvy when the Yankees went eighteen whole years between titles from 1978-96. And you could argue the Leafs’ skid is even worse because hockey just means more here than any individual sport does in New York (and, besides, the Mets won a title in the middle of that Yankees drought, so it wasn’t as if the whole sport of baseball disappeared in our city).

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