Five things Toronto needs to happen for success against Boston in Game 3
Toronto Maple Leafs head coach Mike Babcock can’t single out a specific issue his team needs to improve on ahead of Game 3 against the Boston Bruins.
That’s because the list of his club’s mistakes in the first two games of the series — that’s left the Leafs in an 0-2 hole — is too long to pinpoint just one.
“Any way you look at it, we’re down 0-2 and we haven’t been as good as we’re capable of being. When you go right through it from – the way I look at it is, there are so many things we can do better,” Babcock said Sunday after holding a team meeting.
“They scored a goal that was offside (in Game 1), we didn’t have the (evidence in time), we didn’t (challenge). Our penalty kill hasn’t been as good, we’ve left our goalies alone. We’ve had two too-many men on the ice penalties where a guy is substituting for another guy. All those things, when you look at it, it hasn’t gone very good. That’s real disappointing.”