Where do the 2025 Toronto Maple Leafs go from here?

We have reached world-historic levels of "it's over."

After years of hearing about The Shanaplan and The Core Four, it feels like this is the end of the road for this iteration of the Toronto Maple Leafs, a team that just never really had it.

For a lot of teams that take a lot of bites at the apple before they make the third or fourth round of the playoffs, you're a bunch of losers until you win, but it's hard to think of a team in recent history with a reputation for absolutely chunking it that's more well-earned than the rep these Leafs have. How many different coaches? How many different approaches to building out the depth? How many ideas to put Auston Matthews and Mitch Marner and William Nylander and John Tavares and Morgan Rielly in a position to succeed? And then how many gut-punch l