{"id":542395,"date":"2026-04-05T17:22:29","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T17:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/542395\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T17:22:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T17:22:29","slug":"maple-leafs-find-painful-6-7-meme-vs-kings-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/542395\/","title":{"rendered":"Maple Leafs find painful 6-7 meme vs. Kings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s something especially harsh about the 6-7 meme for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/nhl\/toronto-maple-leafs\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto Maple Leafs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>After all, the last time the Leafs played in (and won) a Stanley Cup Final was 1967.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been a long road since then, and that includes a brutal 2025-26 season that finishes far outside the playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>And on Saturday night, the Leafs played in Los Angeles against the Kings and found that meme on the final scoreboard.<\/p>\n<p>It read Kings 7, Maple Leafs 6.<\/p>\n<p>Yep, 6-7 against the Maple Leafs.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Here the 6 7 joke actually makes sense, because the Maple Leafs haven&#8217;t won a Stanley Cup since 1967<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 JMature99 (@JMature2099845) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JMature2099845\/status\/2040623732117455109?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">April 5, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s clearly not a common score in the NHL.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NHLScorigami\/status\/2040655784430760330?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">NHL Scorigami<\/a> shared that a 7-6 game happens just 0.3% of the time across the league&#8217;s history.<\/p>\n<p>It happened this time, though, and it&#8217;s the kind of loss that is particularly painful.<\/p>\n<p>Maple Leafs fans hoping for draft positioning might be glad that Toronto only got 1 point, not 2.<\/p>\n<p>But the players on the ice will feel this loss particularly harshly. Scoring six goals and still losing certainly stings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-justify\">MORE:\u00a0<a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/nhl\/news\/sabres-bills-make-buffalo-sports-history-not-done-26-years\/ecc79a0827fcabbaaba54d59\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sabres, Bills combine for quarter-century Buffalo sports history<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                            <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There&#8217;s something especially harsh about the 6-7 meme for the Toronto Maple Leafs. After all, the last time&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":542396,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5126],"tags":[5,186,1760,240,5303,793,145,5304,5302,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-542395","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles-kings","8":"tag-hockey","9":"tag-kings","10":"tag-la","11":"tag-la-kings","12":"tag-lakings","13":"tag-los-angeles","14":"tag-los-angeles-kings","15":"tag-losangeles","16":"tag-losangeleskings","17":"tag-nhl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116353263441550767","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=542395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/542396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}