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Wednesday, June 5, 2013

{allcanada} Leiweke: Leafs will learn from Game 7 collapse

The Toronto Sun illustrates how Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment's president and CEO Tim Leiweke views the Leafs' Game 7 collapse against the Boston Bruins for this Cup-starved franchise.

"You go through that last game and it either makes or breaks an organization," Leiweke said Tuesday. "I've seen games like that. I remember the Portland Trail Blazers when they had a collapse against the Lakers (a 2000 conference final where Portland coughed up a 15-point lead in Game 7 in less than 10 minutes). They were never the same team after that and it still hangs over their head.

"(But) this is going to make us. That (Boston breakdown) will be the image, the impression and the moment that we ingrain within everybody in the organization now to make sure we grow from that and we learn our lesson.

"If that's what we do, it's the best lesson we can ever go through."