Last night’s Toronto Maple Leafs’ 5-1 loss to the Buffalo Sabres reminded me of the 2003 Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan movie Freaky Friday, where the mother and the daughter exchanged bodies and then went about acting like each other.
Given that the Maple Leafs had won three in a row and that the Sabres had lost six in a row coming into the game, the two teams’ behavior was freaky indeed. In the end, the Maple Leafs – who were only two points out of first place in the Atlantic Division at the start of the game – lost to a team that was second-to-last and a full 34 points behind them in the Atlantic Division standings. It was indeed a Freaky Wednesday night.
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The 5-1 final score perfectly tells the story of the game. The Sabres deserved to win by four goals. The Maple Leafs deserved to lose by that many as well. There’s no sugar coating the results. It was one of the worst games of the…
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