Craig Berube gave Auston Matthews an earful when the star centre returned to the bench after the third St. Louis Blues goal on Thursday night. 'It's just accountability to everybody,' the new Leafs coach explained.
"It's just accountability to everybody," the new Leafs coach explained."That's all it is. It's nothing personal. It's just me being a coach and doing what I think is right at the time."
"Just communication was off," said Matthews."Covering the middle of the ice is obviously very important. We didn't have that covered and they made us pay." "We need to be more direct with that puck," said Marner."It wasn't the prettiest of plays out of the five guys on the ice." "Well because what I'm seeing in the last four games is the chances are creating," Berube explained."Now, in saying that, you gotta produce and it's gotta go in. A lot of times you just switch it up to switch up, but I see progression in the right direction."
"We can get pucks into the good area of the ice a little bit more and create some second and third chances," said Berube. "We gotta be supporting them and sitting a up high and making sure we're filling in that spot," said Marner."We've been giving up a lot of odd-man rushes and that's when stuff really gets bad."
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