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Sheldon Keefe Post Game, Leafs 4 vs. Golden Knights 3 (SO): “If we want to be a serious hockey team, we have to be better in third periods”

On the team’s performance after building a 3-1 lead:

I thought that we started the second period by giving the game back and opening it up. It led to one of those stretches — a three or four-minute stretch — where we really couldn’t get the puck and couldn’t get anything going. We really allowed their game to take hold.

That was the type of game we thought it would be. With that type of team, if we make a mistake on an entry and have no structure coming back up ice, we make it easy for them to get through the neutral zone.