{"id":407483,"date":"2026-01-14T16:49:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T16:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/407483\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T16:49:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T16:49:13","slug":"were-all-accountable-for-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/407483\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We\u2019re all accountable for it\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A day after defeating the league-best <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/colorado-avalanche\/21\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/colorado-avalanche\/21\" target=\"_blank\">Colorado Avalanche<\/a> on Monday night, the red-hot <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/toronto-maple-leafs\/10\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/toronto-maple-leafs\/10\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto Maple Leafs<\/a> were blown out by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/utah-mammoth\/68\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/utah-mammoth\/68\" target=\"_blank\">Utah Mammoth<\/a> on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Maple Leafs allowed three goals in the second period as part of a 6-1 rout by the Mammoth, dropping their record to 23-16-7 for the season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cThey had a lot of energy and a lot of jump out there. They were quicker than us tonight, and it showed,\u201d head coach <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/craig-berube\/8445440\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/craig-berube\/8445440\" target=\"_blank\">Craig Berube<\/a> told the media after the defeat. \u201cThis is a team loss. You know, we\u2019re all accountable for it. We\u2019ve got to be better. We weren\u2019t good enough.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Entering Tuesday\u2019s game, the Maple Leafs were on a 10-game point streak, winning eight of those contests.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Since falling to the bottom of the Eastern Conference on Dec. 22, the Leafs have turned their season around and are now holding down the second wild-card spot in the Eastern Conference, one point ahead of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/buffalo-sabres\/7\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/buffalo-sabres\/7\" target=\"_blank\">Buffalo Sabres<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/philadelphia-flyers\/4\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/philadelphia-flyers\/4\" target=\"_blank\">Philadelphia Flyers<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/pittsburgh-penguins\/5\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/pittsburgh-penguins\/5\" target=\"_blank\">Pittsburgh Penguins<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Playing the second game of a back-to-back set, the Maple Leafs laboured from the opening faceoff against the Mammoth and were outshot 40-20. It was their first regulation loss since Dec. 21.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cI didn\u2019t really like our game from the start,\u201d Leafs defenceman Ekman-Larsson said. \u201cThey came out and had the puck a little bit more, and it was hard to defend them. So, we\u2019ve got to be better.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Maple Leafs take on former teammate Mitch Marner and the Vegas Golden Knight on Thursday before finishing their four-game road trip Saturday against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/winnipeg-jets\/52\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/winnipeg-jets\/52\" target=\"_blank\">Winnipeg Jets<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A day after defeating the league-best Colorado Avalanche on Monday night, the red-hot Toronto Maple Leafs were blown&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":407484,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5106],"tags":[4759,5,20,5172,4,66,31,32467,5171,33538],"class_list":{"0":"post-407483","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-toronto-maple-leafs","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-hockey","10":"tag-maple-leafs","11":"tag-mapleleafs","12":"tag-nhl","13":"tag-toronto","14":"tag-toronto-maple-leafs","15":"tag-toronto-maple-leafs-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-10","16":"tag-torontomapleleafs","17":"tag-utah-hockey-club-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-68"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115894482771341492","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}