MLHS · Jan 30, 2025
Game in 10: Maple Leafs searching for answers offensively after third straight low-scoring loss
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The Maple Leafs mustered just one goal again in a 3-1 defeat to the Minnesota Wild to bump them out of first place in the Atlantic.
With two top-six injuries weighing on their forward corps and a low-event, defensively oriented Minnesota team across the way, the Leafs struggled to gain traction offensively for much of the contest. They ceded two goals in the first period, one on the power play, which proved too big a hole to dig out of against the league’s best road team.
It’s a third straight defeat in which they’ve scored one goal and the fifth time they’ve scored one or fewer in the last eight games.