Craig Berube Snaps on Maple Leafs Mid-Practice, Delivers Intense Speech After Botched Drill

Following Saturday's loss, which was their fifth consecutive loss in the month of November, Leafs head coach Craig Berube was surprisingly complimentary of his team's, but admitted that he will have to find different ways to motivate and instill confidence in his players.

While William Nylander is a player that thrives on the coach being direct, not all players do. We have seen it in the past, most recently in Thursday's game against the LA Kings when Berube tore into Nylander on the bench after a long shift.

Although he admitted that not everyone responds well to this tactic, the Leafs' bench boss has used 'tough love' in the past during practice. Monday was no different, as he stopped practice and went on a 40-second rant that was filled with profanity.

In his profanity-laced rant, Berube was calling out the effort and compete levels during the drill, with The Fourth Period's Dave Pagnotta catching a few of his words.

Without Auston Matthews, Nicolas Roy, Anthony Stolarz, Chris Tanev and Brandon Carlo for Tuesday's game against his former club, Berube is hoping that his team will put their work boots on and build on the small successes they had in Saturday's loss.

If not, we could see another episode of Berube yelling and holding his head in disbelief, wondering what he has to do to get through to his players.