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Craig Berube latest Leafs coach to experience no playoff pay-off

Article content Welcome to the crowded club of confounded Maple Leafs coaches, Craig Berube. Article content Like his two immediate predecessors, Mike Babcock and Sheldon Keefe, Toronto's newest bench boss saw a great regular season grind to a halt before the playoff tournament was half complete. They were hammered by the Florida Panthers in Game 5 and 7, at Scotiabank Arena by 6-1 scores that will be seared into the team's collective memory all summer. Article content 'To me, that's the most disappointing part of the series,' Berube said Sunday night. 'I can't explain it, nor do I want to. We did a great job fighting for home ice all year, had a great record. '(The Panthers) were the more desperate team, the more aggressive tonight. You win a Game 6, that's great, come home and you have to have a little desperation, determination. And we didn't have it. 'There are obviously things we have to look at and talk about as an organization.' Berube and general manager Brad Treliving will digest that in coming days. After Florida made it 3-0 in Sunday's second period, Berube lost his patience and berated the team at the bench. Mitch Marner, in possibly his last Leaf game, was shouting at teammates to wake up. Auston Matthews partially blamed the loss on 'too many passengers,' an opinion shared by Marner, yet it is getting to be a tired refrain. Those two, William Nylander and John Tavares have all been mostly silent in the six Game 7s of the Core Four Era. Article content Latest National Stories