TORONTO — Anthony Stolarz was still steaming mad.

And it wasn’t about Mason Marchment charging into him during the Toronto Maple Leafs’ eventual overtime loss to the Seattle Kraken. No, the goaltender was mad about the way his team played in front of him, and he showed it.

“I thought the first two periods we kinda let them walk all over us,” Stolarz said of Saturday’s 4-3 loss. “They outworked us in front of the net. They blocked shots, they beat us up and down the ice and the score was indicative of that.

“They just outworked us, plain and simple.”

Stolarz tossed the net out of his way to go after Marchment for crashing into him during the second period, but he wasn’t bothered by the encroachment after the fact.

Quite the opposite. He wanted his own team to do more of that. A lot more of that.

“I think we gotta start going to the cage a little harder, make it harder for their goalies,” Stolarz said. “It’s not fun — I don’t like having 225-pound guys laying on me. Hopefully we learn a lesson here.”

Stolarz noted how the Leafs played offence, shovelling pucks from down low to the points. “But for their goalie, it’s like playing catch in the yard. He’s seeing everything. We’re not making it difficult,” Stolarz said of the team’s play around the opposition net. “We made it difficult in the third (period) and look what happened. We came out, tied the game, got a point out of it, almost scored with five seconds left. But it’s too little, too late. We’re six games into the season.

“Enough’s enough. We kinda got to start picking it up here.”

The Leafs were largely outplayed for the first 40 minutes by a Kraken team that missed the playoffs last season.

The second period was particularly one-sided. The Leafs chased the Kraken around the Toronto zone for extended periods, failing to control play as Stolarz tried and mostly excelled in keeping his team in it. Seattle scored twice in the period, including the kind of goal from Vince Dunn that Stolarz would probably like to see his team replicate.

Dunn fired from the point just as Jaden Schwartz competed for ice in front of Stolarz’s crease. Brandon Carlo shoved Schwartz into the goaltender. Stolarz couldn’t make the save as a result.

Jaden Schwartz was shoved into Anthony Stolarz by Brandon Carlo on Seattle’s third goal. (Nick Turchiaro / Imagn Images)

Soon after, Marchment crashed into his crease.

Stolarz tried to take matters into his own hands when there was no immediate response from his teammates.

“I’m not happy,” Stolarz said of his reaction to the play. “Guys are gonna run me and I’m gonna try to stand up for myself.”

He was pleased when the ref informed him that the Leafs would be granted a power play for goaltender interference.

The Leafs rallied to tie the score in the third on John Tavares’ second goal. They lost it in overtime when Josh Mahura beat William Nylander up the ice and to the net before beating Stolarz for the game winner.

Nylander’s effort on the play didn’t please Stolarz.

“Overtime, you can’t let someone beat you up the ice there. It’s a clear-cut breakaway,” he said. “A minute left, you want to be on the ice in that situation, you gotta work hard, you gotta work back. It cost us a point there.”

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Asked if these were simply early-season issues, a team trying to jell with a few new players in the mix, Stolarz said no.

“A lot of guys have been here for a while,” said Stolarz. “We do have some time to jell. But at the end of the day, too, it’s more or less just about working hard. Work hard, the results come. You saw it in the third period. We can’t play for 20 minutes, 30 minutes, we gotta do it for a complete 60.”

His head coach, Craig Berube, agreed with Stolarz’s general assessment, disappointed by his team’s inconsistency in the performance against Seattle.

“We don’t put it together for 60 minutes,” Berube said, “and that’s what you get.”

Berube didn’t think his team was doing enough to stand up for its goalie or make life around his net more difficult for opponents. It’s something he’s talked to his team about.

“We’re not clearing out the crease enough,” he said. “It’s a willingness to do it more than anything for me.”

Firmly entrenched as the No. 1 after a strong first season with the Leafs — and rewarded with a four-year contract extension last month — Stolarz hasn’t shied away from calling out his team’s play in the early going this fall.

“How many points are we gonna leave out there?” he added. “The potential’s there. We have the skill, we have the grit, we have the grind. It’s just frustrating that we just can’t put it together right now.”