It was another ugly performance from the Toronto Maple Leafs, falling 5-1 to the St. Louis Blues. Mike DiStefano and David Morassutti give their thoughts on the loss and what stood out from the game, including the defensive breakdowns and Craig Berube calling out the effort of the top line, and Joseph Woll making his return. In their look at the Good, Bad & Ugly, Mike and Dave look at what Auston Matthews and William Nylander had to say about the loss, a tough two-game stretch from the top players and more. To end the show, Mike and Dave get you set for Saturday’s game against the Boston Bruins and what should change, especially on the power play heading into the game.
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34 Comments
Trade the whole team
Same stench still lingers around this team gotta make a trade to shake up this locker core needs to be broken up . Way too complacent
Play Stolarz every game.
It's just 1 of 82. And that's the mindset of the whole team. Losing doesn't sting to any of these guys!
Plain and simple; the core 4 are a joke!! reservations are already made for the golf course in the spring!!!
Mario? Mario FINISHED his chances.
Team is clearly becoming unhinged.Maybe issues are far deeper than just coaching. I doubt mathews scores over 40 this year.
I think pressure of being the captain in such a large hockey market will affect his performance
That power play is killing them. If it wasn't for Stolarz this team would have a losing record.
Keep the core together one more year….I'm sure they will get it next year
Need to really mix up the lines. Try something totally new. They can put together 4 lines that can score and be defensively responsible. JT can no longer drive a line even on the 3rd line.
Seems nobody has to answer to anybody. Coach yells just hide under the bench like a dog under a bed in a thunderstorm.
Ahhh i love the growing pains of having a new coach. It sucks tearing the system down completely and rebuilding it up since teams tend to lose alot. But in the end it'll be worth it. They need this, keefes neglect in giving them any tough love, or willingness to revert from his own systems is having some consequences. Time to atone. Give it 40ish games. They'll be a bit more consistent.
Change the whole team and bring in hard players with heart. No privileged players . Team players.
Ok Mathew’s said not good enough but are you going to change or are they just saying what they think it’s what we want to hear. Change it up than, play smarter not harder.
Marner,Johnny T, kamph, Robertson, jarnkrok,Lilly,Pontus out, being in six real heart and hard players. Two or three center men
I swear the script was written in advance, next game up is at TD Garden… and Montgomery just called out his Captain 🧐
YET ANOTHER 2025 CUP PLAYOFFS "PREVIEW GAME" FOR THE SAME OLD SAME OLD LAME NON-SCORING CRAPPY, OVERPAID "CORE-4" LEAFS!! HOW U ALL FEELING TOTALLY DELUSIONAL LEAF NATION??!! LOL
There’s no doubt this Leaf team is far from serious, and it may very well be these Leafs are destined to finish more this regular season like last season’s Raptors (25-57 win-loss record, including three OT losses). This Leaf roster, like that Raptors one was, is badly broken. It’s not too early to say that perhaps this season, simply because the Leafs come nowhere close to qualifying for a playoff spot, will be one during which the Leafs are forced into their first rebuild following the 2016 NHL entry draft during which they had selected AM34 at first overall.
We now see Stolarz was the difference this season….not the forwards..they are the same. This is perfect…. the real issues of the team come to the surface at the start of the season. Now Berube has 50 games to sort this out before they go into the final stretch before the playoffs.
Five days ago I thought this team could make the eastern finals and today I can’t see them making the playoffs
While AM & MM were -6, they weren't just on the ice for 6 goals by the other team as they were also on the ice during PK goals.
Them coming out after game and saying this stuff saying Craig berube making say this stuff means nothing it I just the same hockey talk all hockey players spit out to the media.
You can tell they don't give a fuck about the new coach.
There going to play however they feel like
60 minutes, haven't they had 8 yrs, lmfao
is the Captaincy hurting Matthews? Let him concentrate on what he does best. (Full disclosure: Sen's Fan, but this is a genuine question)
(A Sens' Fan comment would be, "The Parade is back on! Only this time its the Funeral for the Season! Next week?") 🤣🤣🤣
Once Reilly finds his game the Leafs will be fine.
BOTTOM LINE: It extremely difficult to build a well rounded championship lineup with the core four dominating the payroll. ✔️
Unfortunately for Craig and, we fans, this team’s forward core are not ‘play killing’ personnel. They just aren’t wired for direct ‘in your face’ ‘shut down’ play. I like a lot of what Tre has done including hiring Berube, love it, BUT, they should have made some changes to that core. Don’t you think Babcock, Keefe, and all coaching staff tried to accomplish this with this forward group? It’s the one change they’ve refused to make, and it is where the rubber hits the ice.
I can't understand why you pundits are so hung up on what the players say after the game. It really doesn't matter what they say, it's just word salad with different flavours of dressing. They all said we sucked and I sucked. That makes you feel better? Does it change the outcome? Nope. Does it predict a future outcome? Nope. Next up Boston. Let's see action, to hell with words.
who cares. he still kept matthews/marner together and on the top pp no matter how bad it got. showing once again who actually runs the team. he is going to come to the same conclusion as o'rielly/scchenn etc who they brought in to try to change the culture. with shanny fondling 34/16 balls and giving them everythign they want THEY ARE THE PEOPLE IN CHARGE. remember when keefe called them out mildly and then the next day walked it all back. this team is going nowhere. notice while breube is calling out matthews, matthews doesnt even look at him. he has already tuned him out as he KNOWS nothing will change unless he says it can change
The Leafs have had some good coaches over the years, but none of them could get it done..instead of firing the coach first chance they get, maybe start evaluating the guys making 11 mil per season who are actually supposed to go out there and play the game….Mitchy Boy needs to go. Let him win a cup somewhere else, who cares at this point?! You can NOT give him a dime more than Nylander..and even that's too much..the kid was getting booed by his own fans FFS 🤦
I really like those Canada Jerseys, they're pretty cool 😎🙌
As a Blues fan, my take. Marner should have been traded. Done and gone. Goodbye. People backing Matthews….why? He just always seem to lack heart and passion. He will be known as a great scorer without a cup. They need to watch some footage from the prime Blackhawks back in the day. Berube needs to keep riding these guys. Bench Marner or Mathews. Does Mathews really have the passion of McDavid? No.
Man, another bad effort fellows 😮
Break up the core 4 and fire Shanahan already. It’s that simple Smelly Pelley