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What We Learned: It's already time to worry about the Toronto Maple Leafs, huh?

"Do these guys have brain problems?"

This is legitimately the question coming out of the Toronto media after the Penguins — without Sidney CrosbyYevgeni MalkinKris LetangBryan Rust, or Jeff Carter — walloped the Leafs 7-1 in Pittsburgh on the second night of a back-to-back. No one is arguing they played well, and much of the Playing Well they did might have been more attributable to score effects as the game got progressively more out of hand.

The problem is it came a night after they lost in ugly fashion to a not-expected-to-be-good Sharks team, and dropped them to 2-3-1. They've scored just 12 times in six games, and conceded 19 goals. Their power play seems to be in disarray, they take too many penalties, they can't get a save, they have a shooting percentage near the bottom of the

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NHL Toronto Maple Leafs NHL Frederik Andersen Jack Campbell Justin Holl Michael Hutchinson Alexander Kerfoot Mitchell Marner Petr Mrázek William Nylander Morgan Rielly Nick Ritchie Jason Spezza John Tavares Joe Thornton Kyle Dubas Sheldon Keefe
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