Despite finally scoring first against Boston, the Leafs' special-teams struggles are starting to prove too difficult to overcome. Toronto once again allowed a power-play goal - they have done so in every game so far this series - and this time, it came on just 1.5 attempts.
The Leafs went 0/5 on the power play. It is exhausting to be this bad on special teams at both ends of the ice. It's almost impossible to overcome such a deficit against a quality opponent like the Bruins.
The refs will get a lot of attention after this game - and they were bad, to be clear - but the Leafs were at home with a 5-2 power-play advantage before the very end of the game.
The Bruins are 4/9 on the PP so far, and the Leafs are 1/11 in this series. In a nutshell, that's the reason this series is currently 2-1 Boston.
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