Leafs Head Coach Craig Berube Reportedly Calls Team Meeting After First Blowout Loss of the Season

Although it's only two games into the new season, Toronto Maple Leafs head coach Craig Berube has already pooled his players after a blowout loss to the Detroit Red Wings to deliver a concise message to prepare them for their rematch tomorrow afternoon.

The Leafs held a 2-0 lead after the first period of Saturday's game, but ended up falling 6-3, primarily due to a brutal second period that saw Detroit score 3 unanswered goals and outshoot Toronto 15-9.

The third period wasn't any better as the Leafs were outshot 7-6 and outscored 3-1, albeit with 2 goals being scored into an empty net. However, despite being outshot 22-15 and outscored 6-1 in the final 40 minutes, Berube is not ready to sound the alarm bells.

The fiery bench boss admitted that he had a meeting with the team this morning and isn't overly concerned considering the season just started, but he does need to make sure the team is buying into the system at the very least.

Whether they've bought into what was relayed at the meeting will be revealed tomorrow afternoon when they host the Red Wings, but Berube did put his lines into a blender, showcasing that he's not playing around.

With Steven Lorentz tending to an upper body injury, Berube brought Easton Cowan into the lineup and placed him on the top line. Moreover, Matias Maccelli was bumped down to the second line, and he reunited the trio of Nicholas Robertson, Max Domi, and Bobby McMann as well.

The Leafs should come out firing tomorrow afternoon as they open up a 5-game home-stand, and hopefully, the team meeting reignited some of that drive that Berube is looking for early on.