Craig Berube calls out Maple Leafs' leaders for lack of urgency after loss to Oilers

""I talked to the team after the game, our leaders got to take control of it a lot more than they are right now," he said. "To me, it's all a mindset. Whether you're down a goal or up in the San Jose game, you just got to have more urgency and being more direct on how we want to play. We didn't do it in the third period, two games in a row.""

"Nylander was a game-time decision going into the contest due to an illness, and Berube acknowledged that the winger was operating at less than 75 percent efficiency, partially explaining why he wasn't on the ice for the last six minutes of the game. Berube was critical of the lack of hockey smarts from the team as a whole in the third after doing a mostly good job of handling the Oilers' speed through the first 40 minutes."

Craig Berube criticized team leadership and a lack of urgency after a 6-3 loss to the Edmonton Oilers. Connor McDavid recorded two goals and an assist, Leon Draisaitl added three assists and Zach Hyman scored, while Auston Matthews, William Nylander and John Tavares finished scoreless. Nylander was a game-time decision because of an illness and was operating below 75 percent, which partly explained his absence late in the game. The Leafs surrendered five unanswered goals in the third period for the second straight home game and replaced Dennis Hildeby with Artur Akhtyamov, who made his NHL debut.

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