Craig Berube addressed the media after his team\u2019s 6-2 loss to the Florida Panthers, which dropped the Leafs\u2019 record to 32-34-14. <\/p>\n
On William Villeneuve\u2019s debut (18:45 TOI):<\/p>\n
I thought he was really good. On the first couple of shifts, there were obviously nerves, but I thought he had a good game. He did good things tonight: competed, defended hard, moved the puck fairly well. I was pretty happy with him.<\/p>\n
On the team\u2019s performance:<\/p>\n
We got down 2-0 on two kind of lucky goals by them. I thought our second period was our best period. We gave up that third one, which we shouldn\u2019t be giving up. We made a push and got some opportunities late.<\/p>\n
We didn\u2019t execute on our chances. We had three breakaways and didn\u2019t get a sniff on any of them.<\/p>\n
On the goaltending interference challenge:<\/p>\n
I wasn\u2019t real confident, but down 2-0 at the time, I thought he kind of went into him, and it is a 50\/50 one. You never know with those, but I challenged it anyhow. The penalty kill has been good.<\/p>\n
On how Joseph Woll is handling all the losing:<\/p>\n
He is handling it well. He is not happy, for sure. He wants to win. He wants to play well. But hey, you just have to keep battling. It is what it is. He is battling.<\/p>\n
On the difficulty of getting up for a meaningless game like this one:<\/p>\n
It is difficult, no doubt about it. But you\u2019ve got to perform and play. You\u2019ve got to compete. I thought we competed. We didn\u2019t go out there and not compete, but there were just mistakes. Whether it is turnovers or different plays in certain situations, there were mistakes. They\u2019re finding their way into the net.<\/p>\n
On William Nylander driving the bus offensively with both of the team\u2019s goals:<\/p>\n
That line was our best offensive line, for sure, and had a lot of opportunities. They got us a couple of goals, including one on the power play. It just wasn\u2019t enough.<\/p>\n
Game Highlights: Panthers 6 vs. Maple Leafs 2 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Craig Berube addressed the media after his team\u2019s 6-2 loss to the Florida Panthers, which dropped the Leafs\u2019…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":602308,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-602307","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=602307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/602308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}