Alexander Kerfoot told the traveling media contingent that it was a must-win game, an observation that appeared to be strikingly obvious for anyone with even a remote interest in the Toronto Maple Leafs. The message, however, clearly wasn’t received by the team's best players.
This was arguably the worst game of both Auston Matthews and Mitch Marner’s respective seven-year tenures with the club, and Toronto now trails the Florida Panthers three games to none — a nearly insurmountable deficit — after Sam Reinhart notched the overtime winner in Game 3.