If memory serves, and it does, not that long ago, some otherwise full-of-themselves know-it-alls were reflecting on how the next 10 games or so was practically make-or-break for Your Leafs.

Well, so far into that stretch of 10 games, it's break it.  Of course, this latest most-important stretch of the season is nothing of the sort.  But people do like to over egg the pudding, hyperbole being the main ingredient in sports talk.  Me, I don't think 1 stretch of 10 or so games is any more important than any other run of 10 or so games.

For the record, the blue-and-white are 4-5-3 their last 12.  And they've dumped each game that went to OT.  So, 4-8.  Not good.  Not being very good in extra time, it's gonna kill this team.

Of course, it matters almost nil to this fan base.  Even if Your Leafs fade from here, we all know the refrain:  this is a re-building year; we weren't expected to make the playoffs anyway; and so it'll go.