Found: Stanley Cup Ring, Hope?

For Toronto Maple Leaf fans, it's been forty-plus years since they (or perhaps more likely, their parents) saw their team win the Stanley Cup (for perspective, some of those Leafs are pictured at right from a couple of months back). Now a relic from that 1967 Cup Championship year has turned up, as a Leafs fan "found a gold Stanley Cup ring in a Mississauga parking lot." Ironically, it was a Tim Horton's restaurant parking lot in which the ring was found -- ironic because Horton was one of only a dozen or so members of the Leafs' organization to be a part of the 1962, '63, '64 and '67 Cup-winning teams, the four years listed on the side of the ring.

Perhaps Leafs fans should see this as an omen. After all, the last time Toronto went through an extended Cup drought, they received something of a sign from above before breaking the winless streak. And while I'd strongly recommend tracking down a copy of The Tragically Hip's "Fifty Mission Cap" for a great retelling of that tale, I'll let Wikipedia give you the extended version:

... [Bill] Barilko is best known for scoring the overtime goal against the Montreal Canadiens' Gerry McNeil in Game 5 of the Stanley Cup final on April 21, 1951 to clinch the Cup for the Maple Leafs.

Four months later, on August 26, he joined his dentist, Henry Hudson, on a flight aboard Hudson's Fairchild 24 floatplane to northern Quebec en route to a fishing trip. On the return trip, the single-engine plane disappeared and its passengers remained missing despite a massive search. On June 7, 1962 a helicopter pilot (Ron Boyd of Etobicoke) discovered the wreckage of the plane about 100 kilometres (60 miles) north of Cochrane. Notably, the Maple Leafs won the Stanley Cup that year, after not winning it at all during the eleven years that he was missing.

So is this recently-discovered relic, discovered in a Tim Horton's parking lot, a sign of an upcoming return to glory for the Toronto Maple Leafs or the foreshadowing of a great eBay auction?