David Alter talks about how the mindset of the Leafs just doesn’t seem good enough whenever they find themselves in...
After years of playoff struggles, the Toronto Maple Leafs have finally won a playoff series, but any good will that they have built from that brief success is all but gone. Everything was aligning perfectly, they didn’t even need to go through the best regular season team in the Boston Bruins in the second round, but instead the Florida Panthers have given them a rude awakening, and they face an 0-3 series deficit.
While a comeback is possible, it doesn’t seem likely, especially with the lack of killer instinct from this core group of Auston Matthews, Mitch Marner, John Tavares, and William Nylander, especially in Game 3. Frank Seravalli and Tyler Yaremchuk brought on David Alter to Daily Faceoff Live to talk about the Leafs’ lack of a killer instinct, and what mindset the players and the staff have to have.I don’t know.
The core guys have constantly had to answer this question, and every year, it looks like they’re on the precipice of doing that, and then for whatever reason, they don’t get the job done. And then I look at previous years and exit interviews with media and everything like that, it just doesn’t seem like the group is pissed off enough about what’s taking place. They push the right message of “staying positive” because the series isn’t over, and that’s true.
I don’t know. If this ends the way we think it might end, then I think the rope for excuses is over. You finally have to change something major. I don’t know if it’s necessarily the GM and head coach, I think you might have to look at personnel and do what Florida did. They had that difficult question, and they changed the makeup of their team after finishing with the best record in the regular season. Right now, that’s proving to be a brilliant move.
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