Despite finally scoring first against Boston, the Leafs‘ special-teams struggles are starting to prove too difficult to overcome. Toronto once again allowed a power-play goal—they have done so in every game so far this series—and this time, it came on just 1.5 attempts (the Bruins scored an empty net on the power-play goal to technically finish at 2/3).
Potentially even more troublesome, the Leafs went 0/5 on the power play. It is exhausting to be this bad on special teams at both ends of the ice. It’s almost impossible to overcome such a deficit against a quality opponent like the Bruins.