Craig Berube, Toronto Maple Leafs head coach Craig Berube addressed the media after his team\u2019s 5-1 loss to the St. Louis Blues, which dropped the Maple Leafs\u2019 record to 31-30-13. <\/p>\n
On the team\u2019s lackadaisical performance:<\/p>\n
We had one player who showed up tonight, and that was our goalie. That is really what it boils down to.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s very disappointing. I thought the last couple of games were pretty good, and we were building. As I talked about, we were staying competitive and playing together out there.<\/p>\n
We did not have that tonight.<\/p>\n
On whether it can be difficult to manufacture urgency at this time of the season:<\/p>\n
It can be. I am not going to sit here and say it is easy. But again, if you don\u2019t have urgency and you are not competitive, you are just letting each other down. You\u2019re letting that sweater down. That is the bottom line.<\/p>\n
On the Blues\u2019 ability to easily gain the zone:<\/p>\n
Well, it\u2019s because we didn\u2019t check. We had no pressure. We let them come at us all night. They had the puck all night. We didn\u2019t check it off them.<\/p>\n
As I said, checking is a will, a want, and an urgency. We let them do whatever they wanted with the puck tonight.<\/p>\n
On experimenting with William Nylander at center:<\/p>\n
Yeah, well, we are down a center, right? I played him at center quite a bit to see if we could get something going.<\/p>\n
I thought he was fine at center. I didn\u2019t have an issue with it at all. I kept using him there.<\/p>\n