Leafs jersey thrown on the ice in Toronto after 5-1 loss to Blues!

After the Toronto Maple Leafs’ 5-1 loss to his former club, the St. Louis Blues, head coach Craig Berube called out his players for beign sloppy and dishing out odd man rushes.

“We gotta fix that. That’s a problem right now,” Berube said, bluntly. “We made mistakes, bottom line. Defensive mistakes.”

“Our whole team’s getting a little cute,” he added. “We’ve just got to play direct.”

With last night’s defeat, the Maple Leafs made a return to .500 hockey and with all of the star players on their roster, it is simply unacceptable. One specific fan had enough, and once the game was over, threw his jersey onto the ice, which was then picked up by a Leafs’ player with the tip of his stick.

During the game, Berube lost it and yelled at his top line of Auston Matthews, Mitch Marner and Matthew Knies, who is a shocking minus-6 over the past six periods. The bench boss went off on them as they casually covered the defensive zone on Alex Texier’s second-period strike from the slot.

“It was lazy hockey on the goal,” Berube said. “That’s the bottom line.”

While some folks are wondering why the Toronto crowd is already hard on the Maple Leafs at the start of the season, just eight games in, you have to understand that this is not a team in a rebuild. We are talking about a talent-filled roster who is underperforming under a new head coach. I mean the power play dropped to 3-for-27 after another punchless effort on three chances!

Fans are sending a message early into the season that things better change. And you know Toronto fans won’t be cute about how they shared their frustration.