Craig Berube, Toronto Maple Leafs head coach Craig Berube addressed the media after his team\u2019s 4-1 loss to the San Jose Sharks, dropping the Leafs\u2019 record to 32-31-13. <\/p>\n
On the team\u2019s performance:<\/p>\n
We got better as the game went along. I thought that, throughout the whole game, we didn\u2019t shoot the puck enough. We had a lot of opportunities to get more pucks to the net. They blocked too many shots, too, in my opinion.<\/p>\n
But we were competitive. There were a couple of unlucky bounces on their part. The first one went off Benoit\u2019s stick. The third one went off the end boards. It is what it is.<\/p>\n
Offensively, we could\u2019ve done a lot more than we did.<\/p>\n
On the reasons for the team\u2019s low shot count (19 shots on goal):\u00a0<\/p>\n
I think we don\u2019t look to shoot enough, personally. There are a lot of times when it is just a simple shot. It is not our first instinct, in my opinion. Even from the backend, we could move our feet quicker and get them through.\u00a0 I think it is a mindset, more than anything.<\/p>\n
In the second period, there were opportunities. We are right there, and we are trying to pass it. We have to get that out of our system. We have to put more pucks at the net.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s simple shots. In the third, when Max shoots and hits the post \u2014 it\u2019s from a ways out, but those are the types of things.<\/p>\n
I could go back and look at it, but when we shoot the puck, we recover it probably 80% of the time.<\/p>\n
On the Sharks\u2019 attack:\u00a0<\/p>\n
They do a good job of stretching it out. When they think they\u2019re recovering a puck in the zone, they blow the zone pretty good. They got us the one time on a breakaway from it.<\/p>\n
They do a good job. They\u2019re quick. They have some good skill over there. They try to extend the rink quickly.<\/p>\n
On Simon Benoit\u2019s diving goal-line save in the third period:<\/p>\n
He blocks shots and lays it on the line. I thought Benny played a good game tonight. He had some opportunities. He hit a post. He was in there alone a couple of times, but he just couldn\u2019t get it through.<\/p>\n
On Oliver Ekman-Larsson\u2019s status after leaving the game injured:<\/p>\n
Upper-body. I don\u2019t know how serious it is right now. I don\u2019t think it is that serious, but I don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n
He might play (in the next game).<\/p>\n
Game Highlights: Sharks 4 vs. Maple Leafs 1 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Craig Berube, Toronto Maple Leafs head coach Craig Berube addressed the media after his team\u2019s 4-1 loss to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":415005,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5127],"tags":[5,4,519,168,5306,5305,1780],"class_list":{"0":"post-538257","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-jose-sharks","8":"tag-hockey","9":"tag-nhl","10":"tag-san-jose","11":"tag-san-jose-sharks","12":"tag-sanjose","13":"tag-sanjosesharks","14":"tag-sharks"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538257","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=538257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}