Justin Bieber drops bold Toronto Maple Leafs prediction
The Toronto Maple Leafs might not ever seem to have the hockey gods in their corner, but they’ll always have one thing most teams don’t: Justin Bieber cheering them on.
For Bieber, a longtime friend of several Leafs players (most notably Auston Matthews), a die-hard fan of the team, a celebrity team captain at the 2024 NHL All-Star Game in Toronto, and a collaborator on an official alternate jersey with the team, showing his support to Toronto isn’t exactly new.
But perhaps like any true Leafs fan, he’s getting his confidence up after a few playoff wins, believing that this could finally be Toronto’s chance to break their Stanley Cup curse since 1967.
“New series starts tonight. This is the yearski,” Bieber posted to his Instagram feed on Monday morning, sharing a series of photos of Leafs logos.
(For the uninitiated, “yearski” is pretty much a play on the way hockey players tend to speak to each other, adding extra syllables to the end of many words. Meanwhile, “this is the year” is a shorthand for “this is the year [my team could win a championship]”, an easy way for anyone to either calm their own nerves or just hope it’ll come true if they say it often enough.)
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After knocking off the Ottawa Senators in six games, Toronto has second-round home ice advantage over the Florida Panthers, the defending Stanley Cup champion. Things get underway Monday night, with an 8 p.m. EDT puck drop between the two sides on Sportsnet and CBC.
While we can’t confirm Bieber will be in attendance at Scotiabank Arena for any of the games in this series, it’s probably a pretty safe assumption that this won’t be the last we’re hearing of him from this playoff run, whether it ends up being the yearski or not.
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