"There's renewed hope where the lost fans that they had, I think that they're coming back, saying, 'OK, let's give them another shot.'" ![]() "It's definitely a renewed hope," ardent fan Pardeep Sidhu said. In a city that has been frustrated and disappointed for half a century, watching team after team claim what it thought it deserved - the Stanley Cup - Toronto Maple Leafs fans have found their spring, as the games tick down to a playoff berth that was once a pipe dream and now feels like a birthright. It is an unfamiliar feeling in Toronto, a feeling of trust where there wasn't any before, a feeling of belief where once it had been washed away. "I've really made a conscious effort not to say 'us' over the last few years," said Glynn, who creates YouTube videos and is a blogger at Sportsnet. Video: Nylander stickhandles and snipes top shelf He slips, as fans tend to do, from the distance of "them" to the personal of "us," when talking about the Maple Leafs. Glynn is explicating his fandom, coffee in hand, as he slips. ![]() The man appreciates what Glynn is doing, the videos he has put together for almost a decade expressing his every wish and every hope for the Toronto Maple Leafs, the often-funny and always-manic expression of the every-fan id. Moments after he enters, a man walks up and thanks him.
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