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This can be an especially difficult time of the year for the majority of hockey fans, since, by the simple law of averages, the chances are better than 7-1 that their beloved team has already had their hopes of winning the Stanley Cup crushed for yet another year.

As most of their detractors love to remind their long-suffering fans, this time of year can be particularly difficult for fans of the Maple Leafs, since this year’s 40th consecutive postponement of a Stanley Cup parade down Yonge Street is a result of the second longest current losing streak by any team in the NHL. Toronto's streak of post-season ineptitude is second only to the hapless Chicago Blackhawks, who last won the prize in 1961.

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