It’s beginning to feel a lot like … the ’80s.

In that miserable decade — and we’ll throw in 1990-91, too — the Maple Leafs suffered through their worst seasons in franchise history and missed the playoffs five times.

Then, as now, there were bona fide stars on the team, from Börje Salming to Darryl Sittler, Wendel Clark to Rick Vaive. A lot of iffy coaching, true, which is certainly not the case now, and far too much bumbling by upper management, which feels rather déjà vu. When general manager Brad Treliving famously said at his season-wrap press conference last May that the Leafs needed to change their DNA, we didn’t think that meant a teamwide lobotomy.

In too many games thus far, it feels like the players left their brains in the dressing room, along with their will a

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