I thought Leafs Twitter was being really overdramatic about Toronto's inconsistency.

So I dove into their game-by-game numbers and wrote an article about how Toronto has been the most inconsistent team in the NHL by a large margin these past few years
https://lastwordonsports.com/hockey/2021/01/22/examining-if-the-toronto-maple-leafs-play-is-inconsistent/

A lot of people have joked that this is super depressing. Which it is, but the opposite of everything I say here is also true.

Comparing teams xG to how often they dominate games at evens, and Toronto is also a large outlier here. So they also dominate as many games anyone

Finally, here are the total number of dominant + disastrous games over 2 years.

Toronto really is in a league of its own. The habs being the second most inconsistent is not something I would have guessed either.