The coach has got to be better as the Toronto Maple Leafs lose yet again

The Toronto Maple Leafs have now lost three games in a row, and four of their last five games.

The Toronto Maple Leafs woes cannot be summed up easily either, as the power-play is terrible, the blue-line is thin, the team doesn't have enough NHL quality centres on it, the bottom of the lineup is a mess and the stars aren't playing too well.

The only real thing anyone can look to after nine games with any real pride or satisfaction is the play of Anthony Stolarz, who, despite the loss, was perfectly fine last night.

You can't say much for anyone else, other than I guess Mitch Marner who had three assists and a nice game.

The Toronto Maple Leafs lucky to get a point in bad game vs Bruins

You can't really tell last year's Leafs from this years. For example, last night the Leafs did not even come close to "starting on time," they had to overcome a bunch of terrible decisions by their coach, and they let a team that they should crush dictate the game to them.

The Leafs only had 2 shots during 5v5 play during the first period (15 minutes) and zero dangerous scoring chances. If you include their three power-plays, two of which overlapped, they had five shots and one dangerious chance.

For a team that had just had to extremely rough games, it was a terrible start to the game.

Boston dominated in every facet of the game, beating the Leafs in puck-possession, shots, scoring chances, dangerous chances and expected goals quite handily.

The Leafs got a point because Auston Matthews scored a sweet goal, but it was the play of Anthony Stolarz who got them there. The Bruins scored a power-play goal and an overtimen goal, but I don't think he was to blame for either of the 5v5 goals, and his play so far is just about the only thing to like about the Leafs season so far.

It wasn't just the team either - the coach made a number of bad plays. He stuck with the same power-play lines (he switched defenseman again, who cares) played Ryan Reaves, played Domi at 2C and had a defensive pairing of Benoit and Myers, which was predictably bad.

Scoring chances were 9-3 Boston with Beonit/Myers on the ice and dangerous chances were 5-0. They were absolutely terrible and it's amazing the coach didn't know better than to even try this.

And don't look now, but Oliver Ekman-Larsson has fallen under 50% xGoals on the season. The hype was huge after three games, but it didn't even take ten for him to fall back to earth. (stats from naturalstattrick.com).

This was a bad game, but it was illistrative of the best we can hope for from the Leafs: their cobbled together lineup does alright, and they get points depending on how their stars perform. Unfortunately, while they got good games from Matthews, Marner and the goalie, Nylander was brutal and they ultimately did not win.

Next up, the NHL leading 8-0 Winnipeg Jets on Monday.