Panthers Dominate Maple Leafs
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The lights couldn’t be brighter, and the noise couldn’t be any louder after the Toronto Maple Leafs didn’t just lose Game 5, they were humiliated.
The Toronto Maple Leafs dropped Game 5 of their second-round playoff series to the Florida Panthers. Toronto is now down 3-2 in the series, and they will be looking to keep the season alive by needing to win a road game.
Toronto Maple Leafs right wing Mitch Marner is a free agent at the end of this season, and there's a real possibility he won't be back with the franchise where he's spent the first nine years of his NHL career.
His final act as a celebrated star at Scotiabank Arena may ultimately be remembered for a dance of a much darker variety after he inexplicably spun off a defender in his own zone and tossed a no-look backhand pass up the middle of the ice to open the floodgates for the Florida Panthers on Wednesday night.
Leafs coach Craig Berube doesn't want the team to overthink the game as it heads to Florida to try to force Game 7.
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One Maple Leafs fan made it abundantly clear how they're feeling about Auston Matthews during the Game 5 blowout.
We have to go back a long way for the last all-Canadian conference final. All the way back to 1994, when the Canucks beat the Maple Leafs in the Western Conference final.
If there's anything Toronto Maple Leafs head coach Craig Berube wants to see out of his players in a do-or-die Game 6 against the Florida Panthers, it's that they're not overthinking things.