Leafs Fall to the Panthers, Again

The Leafs brutal stretch was extended following a 5-2 loss to the Florida Panthers Tuesday night. The Leafs are 0-4 against the Panthers this season, allowing five goals in each contest, being outscored 20-9. James Reimer got the nod between the pipes for the Leafs for the first time since February 28th. Unfortunately for Reimer, Sean Bergenheim buried a a rebound from a shot by Keaton Ellerby that was tipped by Mikael Samuelsson in front only 59 seconds into the contest. The Panthers second goal was scored by defenseman Jason Garrison, his 15th of the season, off a pass by Marcel Goc with 5:17 left in the second period. Finally, the Leafs got on the board with 58 seconds left in the second with a goal by centreman, Tyler Bozak, to make it 2-1. Bozak's goal ended the Leafs goal drought that lasted a span of 196 minutes, 26 seconds. Florida restored the two goal advantage in the third when Tomas Kopecky scored on the powerplay, 6:07 into the period. Marcel Goc added another with the man advantage to extend the lead to 4-1 for the home squad. The Leafs answered roughly three minutes after by a goal from Mikhail Grabovski to cut the lead to two. This is as close as the Leafs would get as Bergenheim added an empty netter, his second of the game, to put it away. This loss continued the unbelievable collapse of the Leafs season as their record is 2-13-2 in their last 17 games.

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Leafs head coach Randy Carlyle's comments following the game:

The Leafs next game is Thursday, March 15 in Tampa against the Tampa Bay Lightning.