Drake wins large wager after Toronto Maple Leafs lose to Lightning

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Might 13, 2022 • 17 hours in the past • 3 minute learn • 37 Comments

Drake seen at a 2019 playoff recreation between the Toronto Maple Leafs and Boston Bruins. Picture by Screengrab

Drake simply pocketed $800,000 due to the Toronto Maple Leafs’ loss Thursday evening to the Tampa Bay Lightning.

The Toronto rapper revealed on his Instagram Story final week that he was plunking down $400,000 in his perception that the first-round NHL playoff sequence would stretch to seven video games. After Toronto lost 4-3 in overtime, Drake walked away with $1.2 million.

On Might third, Drake posted his @Stake stub on IG — a $400K wager that the Maple Leafs-Lightning sequence would go seven video games.

6 God simply received 1.2 million. 💰 pic.twitter.com/QyrXFs7ekr

— Boardroom (@boardroom) May 13, 2022

It’s essential to notice that the Hotline Bling star hasn’t made public any wagers on Recreation 7 — but. However Drake has a historical past of publicly embracing the groups he loves. As the worldwide ambassador for the Toronto Raptors, the Grammy winner is a fixture at NBA video games, together with the club’s Game 6 loss to the Philadelphia 76ers last month.

And Leafs followers may actually need Drake to sit down this one out. The staff hasn’t superior to the second spherical since 2004 and is now 0-8 in elimination video games during the last 5 playoffs.

In 12 months’s previous, Drake’s endorsement of sports activities groups has been unscientifically confirmed to indicate that they’re headed for failure.

In 2019, he confirmed up throughout Recreation 4 of the NHL playoffs between Toronto and the Boston Bruins in Maple Leafs gear and guess what? The Leafs lost 6-4.

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Then-Leafs coach Mike Babcock weighed in on speak of a curse post-game. “I’ve heard lots of things since I’ve come here, but that’s one of the craziest things,” Babcock said when asked his thoughts on the curse. “The game is played on the ice by us. There’s no curse whatsoever.

“Anytime anybody wants to come and support us, we’re all in.”

However the “Drake Curse” has additionally been blamed for losses suffered by the College of Alabama, Serena Williams, Conor McGregor and Paris Saint-Germain.

Extra not too long ago, Drake wager on pal Kevin Durant’s Brooklyn Nets to beat the Boston Celtics (they have been swept after dropping 116–112 in Recreation 4). Final weekend, he plunked down $427,000 on MMA fighter Justin “The Highlight” Gaethje to beat Charles Oliveira at UFC 274 (Gaethje misplaced).

After he misplaced $275,000 on Jorge Masvidal at UFC 272 in March, his opponent Colby Covington trolled the singer for his loss. “Let’s talk about all the money Drake lost tonight,” Covington said. “He needs to go back to selling those s—– albums to get back the money.”

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In the meantime, the Leafs’ different mega-fan Justin Bieber can also be staying conspicuously quiet.

When the pandemic-shortened NHL season started final 12 months, the London, Ont.-born singer boastfully predicted the Leafs could be hoisting Lord Stanley’s Cup for the primary time since 1967.

“This is the year,” he declared alongside a picture of the staff’s crest.

However after cheering on the Leafs just about all season lengthy, usually posting encouraging messages on his Instagram page, he was quiet through the staff’s first spherical matchup in opposition to the Habs, which Toronto misplaced after blowing a 3-1 sequence lead.

“The Leafs lost because Justin Bieber hasn’t posted a random old Leafs logo on Instagram in a while,” one particular person theorized.

So wait, perhaps what Leafs Nation needs to be hoping to see on social media over the subsequent few days is: Drake making an enormous wager on the Lightning and Bieber taking to Instagram to declare, “Did I say, last year was the year? I meant this is the year.”

Or perhaps the staff will put its playoff demons to mattress as soon as and for all.

In an interview with the Sun early within the season, Leafs all-star centre Auston Matthews stated the staff had discovered from its previous post-season missteps.

“I know for us we have the belief in ourselves, and we feel we will get it done and we’re going to break through. Regardless of our failures, champions and legends are made of how you respond to failure, not success,” Matthews said.

We’ll discover out Saturday evening when the puck drops between the Leafs and Lightning for Recreation 7 at Scotiabank Enviornment.

mdaniell@postmedia.com