Your Leafs lose tonight, TB upsets Bos, then TB beat Your Leafs Thursday, and boom, just like that, the spread is 1 pt heading to the weekend with 2 games to play for Your Leafs and TB.

Though Your Leafs would hold the 1st tiebreaker, meaning their lead would actually be 2 pts.

Not inconceivable, given the fabled blue-and-white's affection of collapses.

I mean, just 'bout everything would hafta go right from here for Your Leafs to again find themselves renting a flat on the Boulevard of Broken Dreams, but wouldn't it be great?

But, who cares?  We're talking Leafs Nation here, the most deferential toady congregation of fandom in all of sports, lemmings all.  Even if Your Leafs do the nearly-impossible, and after management published full-page ads in every newspaper in the land to apologize and promise to do better next year,  they'd all quickly rationalize it and be back next year.

MLSE loves each and every 1 of you.