Craig Berube | Post Game at Buffalo Sabres | October 24, 2025
on a night where it feels or at least sounds like there was a lot of effort there but didn’t go your way. Yeah, I mean it’s Yeah, obviously just a loss, right? I mean I love the effort tonight. I thought a lot of good things. Competed extremely hard. Um you know we the back end’s banged up but guys played hard. I thought competed hard. We they outscored us. That’s the really the bottom line. We had lots of good opportunities to uh put more in the net and we just couldn’t get it done. What did you like about Matthews, Neander, McMahon, first look at them together? Yeah, they just looked really good. They were quick. Um, supported each other really well, strong on pucks, you know, a lot of ozone time, you know, a lot of good things from that line. That style of game, is that a hard one when you got new bodies coming in and that just that openness, is that a trickier one or is that not a factor? It can be for sure. Um but like you know for me tonight we played more of our identity, our game the way we want to play it. Now there’s always things to clean up, right? Um keeping the puck out of our net. you know, there’s some there some things there that um we can do better job, but overall like I thought this game here showed me um the speed of our team when we play direct, the compete, the heaviness, you know, just tons of shots going towards the cage. Um puck recoveries, things like that. You’re short penalty killers, but you have a five on three for 150. What does it say about your team’s ability to kind of clear that? Well, they did a great job. I thought there were some great blocks and that’s what you need. Five on three, they’re going to shoot pucks and um some great blocks and those guys did a really good job. How’s William kind of committed to that, wasn’t it, tonight? Oh, for sure. He had I think he had, you know, I don’t know, five or six blocks tonight in the game. How’s William? Um, we’ll see tomorrow. Could he possibly play tomorrow? Could he possibly play? Maybe. Yeah, we’ll see. Got to see him. I got to see tomorrow. What does it mean that Joseph Falls rejoining? Yeah, it’s great. We’re We’re so happy to have him back. Um, you know, look, really looking forward to it. Yeah, it’s awesome. You leaned heavily obviously on Storms early on. Like, what was your sense of of him tonight? Um, you know, I don’t know. I mean, you know, I’ I’d want to wait till I talk to him first, but um it’s a lot for him that he’s we leaned on him heavy here and um it’s a lot of games, a lot of hockey he played. So, um you know, I’m sure he’s sure he’s tired a little bit. I know you like you said you like the what the team showed today. Is there still some searching, you know, given all the moving parts of the map and just for for what this team is? Mean like the new people coming in and stuff like that. people and bodies in and out and all that stuff is like it’s tough tough to identify exactly what you have. Yeah, I know. But that’s that’s part of the game too, right? There’s bodies in and out all year. A lot of times there’s injuries and other things that go on, but um I think our new guys that um we got, they’re starting to to really come around and show why we went and got them. And one of those guys, Dakota, obviously, where do you feel like he’s at? where you see him coming on. Uh his game’s gotten better and better. Uh the last two or three games, I think his game is coming to what we expect of him. And that goal is classic, you know, goal that he’s going to score. But to me, that line, I thought that line had a lot of ozone time. They’re heavy on pucks. Um you know, they they they shot a lot of pucks and attempts at the net. They just didn’t get there a lot of times, you know. So, it’s just one of those things where blocks or miss the net, whatever it was. But, um, they they I thought they did a good job.
Head Coach Craig Berube speaks with the media following the Leafs’ 5-3 loss to the Buffalo Sabres.
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9 comments
Keep your head up boys, you looked good tonight. Youll get your defence back and itll come together. Loving the lines, stick with it!
Only Toronto fans would drive the best player on the team for 8 years out of town. Have fun missing the playoffs.
Free loss, Jays Won WOOOOOOOO🐦 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Defence by comity and fast defensive zone exits is what this team needs to do, stop playing fancy in your own end, its so obvious.
Start the REBUILD ASAP.
I gotta say one thing, the leafs actually looks like they tried tonight. Aside from the Defence it actually looked like a very well played game. The defence didn’t feel because Morgan and Tanev weren’t there though. I can’t act like them not being there isn’t a factor, but a lot of very sloppy defensive plays from both the blue line and the forward core. All in all, you got this boys pull it together. I beleaf🇨🇦🇨🇦💙🤍💙🤍💙
Definitely missed Tanev and Reilly. Mermis was like -3 and looked shell shocked at times. It was fun to see the Space Slug jersey again.
Becoming the laughing stock of a city unfortunately.
We have one good team in Toronto the Jay's.