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What Toronto Maple Leafs players said after gutting OT loss

Adam Laskaris
Adam Laskaris
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May 10 2025, 10:00 am
What Toronto Maple Leafs players said after gutting OT loss
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The Toronto Maple Leafs might’ve shaken off some of their playoff demons this year so far, but they can’t quite rid themselves of Brad Marchand.

In overtime of a Game 3 second-round matchup against the Florida Panthers on Friday where Toronto could’ve taken a 3-0 series lead, it was the 36-year-old Marchand scoring his 12th career playoff goal against the Leafs to end the game with a 5-4 score.

While Toronto still has the series lead and a chance to go up 3-1 on Sunday, the mood wasn’t exactly jovial when the team met the media postgame after the loss.

“In overtime, we had our opportunities. We had offensive zone time and were doing things. It is a bounce. That is what happens in overtime, a lot of the time,” Toronto head coach Craig Berube said.

As for Leafs goalie Joseph Woll, who let in the overtime winner and suffered his first loss of the playoffs, the mindset is all about moving forward to try to win the next one.

“Shake it off. Bounces go both ways in hockey. Just came out on the wrong side. We’ve done a good job all year of sticking to our process. That’s what we fall back on,” he said.

After being forced into the role following Anthony Stolarz’ head injury, Woll has let in 11 goals on just 86 shots, posting up a tough .869 save percentage.

With a career playoff and regular season mark both at .910, Toronto will need Woll to step his performance up over the remainder of the series if they’re going to win two more games and move onto the Conference Final.

Marchand’s goal appeared to take a bounce off of veteran Toronto defender Morgan Rielly. Despite scoring a goal of his own, two different Florida goals on the evening deflected in off of the Leafs’ longest-serving player, with Alex Barkov also banking one in off Rielly.

“We expected them to be desperate, and they were,” Rielly said. “It happens. I mean, that’s how pucks are going in right now. It seems, not just in this series, look at last series and kind of around the playoffs, that’s, that’s how it’s going in.”

Toronto and Florida head back to Amerant Bank Arena in Sunrise for Game 4 on Sunday evening.

“It’s been extremely competitive and, you know, really physical all the way through. So as we go, I would only expect that to continue to to rise,” Rielly added.

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