It's only one game in a race to four wins, but a feckless power play and undisciplined penalties added up to a 5-1 loss.
BOSTON — When Brad Treliving was hired by the last spring he made a point of digging through the finer points of a postseason in which they stalled out in a five-game, second-round series loss to . What did he find? “I looked at the team and studied the team and watched and in the playoffs we didn’t score,” Treliving told The Athletic last month. “Everybody thinks it was, ‘Oh, we didn’t defend or we weren’t tough enough.’ We didn’t score.
It also continued a disturbing recent trend for the Leafs after they displayed an unusual lack of composure while giving opponents 17 power plays during a four-game losing streak to end the regular season. Advertisement “We’ve got to be a little bit more prepared to just kind of tone it down a bit and not be so emotionally invested and stick within the game,” said Leafs forward . “Obviously, in playoffs, it’s a special teams kind of thing,” added Mitch Marner. “It can really win you a series.
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