The Toronto Maple Leafs are certainly in one right now.

Perhaps the only silver lining is that their baseball cousins are drawing absolutely all the city’s attention, with the Toronto Blue Jays proving a handful for the powerhouse Los Angeles Dodgers in the World Series.

Truth be told, I may have been one of the few tortured souls tuned into the wrong game on Sportsnet on Wednesday night, a nightmare of a 6-3 Leafs loss to the Blue Jackets in Columbus.

They’ve now dropped six of their first 11 games — despite facing just two of last season’s playoff teams — and looked absolutely horrendous in doing so. Toronto is now on pace for just 82 points after the first month of the season, which would have put them tied for 23rd a year ago, and sits in the league basement in key statistics like puck possession.

It was interesting in the lead-up to this one, watching the betting lines. I never wager, but the odds tend to give you an idea of where the smart money is going, and in this case, they kept slipping against Toronto, as more and more folks threw bets on a Columbus team that finished 15 spots and 19 points back of the Leafs in the standings six short months ago.

It’s not as if the Blue Jackets have been a powerhouse in the early going. They’re a decent young team that may surprise, but it’s more that basically everything that can go wrong is right now for the Leafs — and not having William Nylander (who the team revealed is day-to-day with a lower-body injury) and starting beleaguered backup Cayden Primeau was enough to make them the underdogs.

Kudos to those who took the favorites because this one wasn’t even close. The score flattered the road team.

The injury parade continued, too, as Steven Lorentz left the game in the second period after crashing into the boards before one of the (many) scoring plays for Columbus. He becomes the sixth Leaf out right now, joining Nylander, Joseph Woll, Chris Tanev, Scott Laughton and Calle Järnkrok.

All those absences are obviously part of why Toronto is struggling right now, but they can’t explain just how many brain-dead turnovers and odd-man rushes they’re conceding against mediocre opponents. Columbus was particularly dangerous in this one by activating its D, with Zach Werenski, Ivan Provorov and Dante Fabbro all scoring with aggressive plays from the back end.

The Blue Jackets finished with 12 shots from their D alone, nearly half of the pucks they put on Primeau, as they faced little opposition from the Leafs’ porous defensive zone play.

The Leafs’ only goal in the first 55 minutes was another ham-and-egg play at the front of the net, with fourth-liner Sammy Blais, in his first game with Toronto, getting a bunt on a high puck for his first NHL goal since October of 2023.

The Leafs did pile on the chances in the second half after going down 5-1, as score effects came into play — and John Tavares (one of the team’s few bright spots this year) scored his 500th career goal in perhaps the worst possible moment, with four minutes left in the blowout loss. But Toronto’s best players looked largely unthreatening and anemic for a lot of the night, especially in going 0-2 on a power play that generated just one shot on goal.

The Leafs’ man advantage is now down to just 13.8 percent on the season, fourth last in the NHL, and has become an unignorable issue for coach Craig Berube already.

But he has to feel at least somewhat overwhelmed by just how many leaks there are in the Leafs’ dike right now. Toronto’s biggest strengths at each position last season were its impressive goalie tandem, Tanev’s airtight shutdown defence and Mitch Marner’s 102-point season, and they’re all absent right now.

Anthony Stolarz is already beat up and worn down, after just eight starts and an .886 save percentage, and had to sit a game out entirely on the weekend. Primeau, meanwhile, is down to an ECHL-like .838 after three games, and may well find himself back on waivers here soon enough with Woll back with the team.

I don’t think anyone has to worry about him getting claimed.

The most troubling development of all, however, may be one Berube can’t do much about: Auston Matthews, the team’s $13.25 million captain, still doesn’t look himself, and after another pointless night in Columbus, is on pace for just 60 points.

Forget all of the many other issues facing this team right now. If Stolarz can’t be one of this team’s key strengths, if Tanev begins playing his age, if Matthews looks nothing like the 69-goal player he was in 2023-24, what is this team, in a best-case scenario?

Probably not very good.

Unfortunately, that’s where the Leafs are at right now. Even if hardly anyone has been watching the carnage unfold.

And the contrast with what the Jays are doing couldn’t be more stark.