Craig Berube | Post Game vs. New York Rangers | October 16, 2025

What do you like about your uh your team’s performance tonight? Yeah. Yeah. I mean, um it’s good to see the power play get a goal. You know, f there’s four penalties in the first period, so that really summed up that period for me. And then second period, you know, I thought that uh we got caught ex extending our shifts and just kind of lost our uh you know, ma men and they trans they they uh transitioned from defense to offense quickly and caught us on some oddman rushes. You know, we we I thought we extended our shifts in the second period, third period. They they had the momentum. We grinded it out though. Um goalie was good. You know, we got to we got to be better than that. But it was a win. What’s your understanding of um the sequence at the end of the game where still make the save without his mask on? Um well, I think obviously it’s a judgment call by the referees and you know, I think they felt that u they had an opportunity to make a play quickly and maybe score. So, they didn’t blow it down till after that little sequence. But, uh, I’m not totally sure on all that because I think What’s that? You think that ought to be the rule cuz it’s a tough call. I mean, I think, you know, your goalie loses his mask, you know, he’s in a very vulnerable position and a position and get really hurt and um I don’t think anybody wants to see that ever. So, in my opinion, blow it down, but that’s me. your uh your decision tonight to limit Eastston in the third period. Was that about his game or just the the way the game was going? The game in general, I think more than anything. And um I thought our team maybe lacked a little energy tonight. So, I was just trying to find some some lines and some energy together, that’s all. Yeah. A lot of hockey here. Obviously, we play Saturday again. So, we got to we got to sum up some energy here for that game. closer to to challenging their their goal to see. We wanted to look at it closely. I I wasn’t sure if Carlo touched it after the high stick and I called the timeout just cuz I wanted to be sure about it. I thought it was a crucial time of the game. And so that’s why I called the timeout, but obviously it um he did touch it. So it was it was a good goal.

Head Coach Craig Berube speaks with the media following the Leafs 2-1 overtime victory over the New York Rangers on Thursday.

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5 comments

  1. If the leafs want to win a cup the first period is where you try drain the other team with hits so that in the second and third period they will have more legs than their opponent. Unfortunately I’ve never really seen the leafs ever to do it

  2. A win is a win, but I counted at least 9 moments where a Leaf had possession in the D-zone, under little direct pressure & failed to get a clear. That will bite you, although it only cost them 1 goal in this game. That was Carlo with a pass option to Maccelli who decided to lob it out instead. It was knocked down by a Ranger high stick & instead of letting it fall to the ice where it would've been blown dead, he tried to bat it out. That resulted in yet another D-zone clear fail & turnover, then the Ranger's only goal. Matthews, Nylander, Tavares, Maccelli, Domi, Tanev, Benoit & Knies also had D-zone clear fails. The officiating was once again notably sub-standard with multiple missed calls, including the failure to blow the whistle when Stolarz's mask came off.

  5. That was truly a scary game in how many giveaways in the D zone took place. The fact that the Leafs came out of it with w win rests entirely with Stolarz.

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