"We can all agree with Craig Berube's lamentation of his team's lack of urgency to start the third period while down a goal in this game. The contest obviously ended inside the first two minutes of the final frame when the Leafs came out, played in their own end, punted pucks back to the Oilers repeatedly, and gave up two goals in two minutes to make it 5-2. It started with a miserable tone-setting shift from the top line and came unravelled from there."
"As seen again to start that third period, the Leafs repeatedly throw pucks away to the other team, and their breakouts are, by and large, a mess. It goes without saying that you must possess the puck enough and make a team like the Oilers defend for their fair share of the five-on-five game, or the odds of a positive result become very low with E"
The Leafs lacked urgency to start the third period while trailing by one, surrendering two goals within the opening two minutes to fall 5-2. A tone-setting miserable shift from the top line preceded the unraveling. A late-second-period mental lapse by the makeshift Domi, Roy, and Robertson pairing left them matched against McDavid, Draisaitl, and Hyman and contributed to the decisive sequence. The Leafs were more than doubled up in five-on-five shot attempts (23-10 after the first period). Repeated turnovers, messy breakouts, and flawed structure and public messaging undermine the team's chances.
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