#coaching-criticism

#coaching-criticism

"I have no clue. I don't have an answer for that right now," Berube said. "Like I said, the second period, they got the puck and did whatever they wanted with it. We didn't check anybody, we didn't knock anybody off the puck, and when we did get it, we gave it back to them, and they just kept coming back down our throats. I mean, it's just not good enough."

The season is still young but also isn't nothing and whether you feel the Leafs will be fine or not is somewhat irrelevant. What matters is that this doesn't look like a club that is attempting to prove that they can do even better without Mitch Marner. Matias Maccelli, Nicolas Roy, and Dakota Joshua haven't taken steps back from their 2024-25 downturns, and Anthony Stolarz' save percentage points to a club that is witnessing their PDO bubble burst.