The Toronto Maple Leafs’ losing streak extended to three games on Saturday night after a 5-2 loss to the Ottawa Senators.

After back-to-back losses on the road to the Tampa Bay Lightning and Florida Panthers, the Leafs returned home and were once again unable to get going on either side of the puck, allowing four goals in the second period and were outshot 40-23 in the loss.

Toronto has now allowed 14 goals in three games since the Olympic break, all losses to Atlantic Division rivals.

“I thought we started better. We just kind of lost it there. Really disconnected through all three zones. Embarrassing to be honest with you,” Leafs captain Auston Matthews said following the game. “We need to have more pride in our play, and we didn’t have that tonight.”

The club now sits last in the Atlantic Division (27-24-9) with 63 points and trail the Boston Bruins by eight points for the final wild card spot in the hyper-competitive Eastern Conference playoff race.

Matthews had one assist in the game, extending his career-long assist streak to three games. However, the gold-medal winning captain of Team USA has not scored in his past seven contests.

“When you go through tough stretches, you can lack confidence. That can happen to anybody. We’re going through a tough stretch right now, coming out of the break. It’s never fun to lose in this fashion, three games in a row,” said Matthews. “It’s hard. It definitely wears on you. There’s no feeling sorry for ourselves. Everybody’s got to look in the mirror and be better.”

The Leafs opened the scoring early in the first period on Morgan Rielly’s eighth goal of the season, but the Sens took over from there. Ottawa earned the next 19 shots on goal and scored three unanswered to take a 3-1 lead midway through the second period.

After William Nylander cut the deficit to one, the Sens scored another pair of goals 51 seconds apart to chase goaltender Joseph Woll after he allowed five goals on 28 shots.

“When I look at the game and show tape or we go over things, there’s a certain way we need to play the game. But I can’t give guys this [points to heart] or this [points to head], and they have to come with that,” head coach Craig Berube said. “That’s got to be on them. They’ve got to bring the heart and the competitiveness that’s needed, and it’s all the little things. They’ve got to bring that. They’ve got to want to bring that. We can bring the X’s and O’s, and I can go in there and yell and scream at them all I want. That doesn’t do anything, either.”

The Leafs next hit the ice on Monday against the Philadelphia Flyers as they look to earn their first win since Feb. 3.