Your Leafs are .500, true, as are almost every other team in the NHL right now, save for 4 teams in the West. So, you misunderstand what .500 means in the league these days--it means you're near the bottom of the league.
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If you say the Leafs are the SAME as "almost every other team in the NHL right now" (save for 4 teams in the west) then BY DEFINITION they are both near the bottom AND THE TOP of the league....because they are the same as every other team.  That is your own logic.

Too funny.