Shootouts haunt Leafs again in loss to Sens; Toronto now with NHL-leading six shootout defeats
TORONTO — Shootouts continue to haunt the Toronto Maple Leafs.
The club dropped its NHL-leading sixth game via the shootout (1-6) on Saturday night, Tom Pyatt scoring his first ever NHL shootout goal to win it for the Ottawa Senators 3-2.
Mitch Marner was the lone Leaf to beat Mike Condon at the other end, Auston Matthews, James van Riemsdyk and Tyler Bozak all turned aside. The Leafs currently hold the final wild card spot in the Eastern Conference, but could conceivably be higher than that with a few more points in the skills portion of extra time.
“I think they need to skew the points a little more,” van Riemsdyk said after the loss, Toronto’s second straight defeat following three consecutive wins. “It seems interesting you can win a shootout and get as many points for beating a team in 60 minutes. I don’t think I like that aspect of it.