Three straight regulation losses aren't a good sign. Exactly how much of a problem are the various underlying trends?

With the Maple Leafs coming off another rough loss, this time at the hands of the Dallas Stars, they are going to need all the firepower necessary to weather this sudden storm of terrible play.

Last night, the Toronto Maple Leafs hosted the Dallas Stars, and they didn’t get the result they were hoping for. They came into the game as losers of two in a row and coming off what might have been their worst effort of the season against the Vancouver Canucks.

The Toronto Maple Leafs head coach felt his players delivered. The result, however, was more of the same. And now a team that did well to grasp a new system in the first half of the NHL season is facing its first real bumps in the road.