Tomas Kaberle offers up an old-school solution for the struggling Maple Leafs: Leafs Morning Take

It’s official: The Toronto Maple Leafs are in trouble.

For the third consecutive outing – second against Boston – Craig Berube’s bunch were outclassed and outmatched on Tuesday night at TD Garden.

Just for good measure, in the process, they lost both Auston Matthews (Lower Body) and Anthony Stolarz (Upper Body) to injury, too. This team is in shamble, and quite frankly, so are we. To kick off the Wednesday edition of Leafs Morning Take, we gave our initial thoughts on the latest disappointing effort. They look lost, they look broken, and honestly, it looks like Berube’s message isn’t getting through to these guys anymore.

After that, we got to a full-blown game recap. If you’re keeping score at home, 15 of Toronto’s 17 games this season have hit the over. In addition to that, the Leafs have now allowed 5+ goals SEVEN TIMES. Translation: This team can’t play defence. Most specifically, the most appalling part of the night was the start to the game. Coming off the weekend’s embarrassment, the Leafs took three minor penalties in the first eight minutes of the game. Once again, they surrendered the first goal of the game and trailed 3-1 after the first frame. Hell, even Alex Steeves scored against them. Stolarz was brutal for the second straight outing surrendering three goals on 11 shots. He didn’t return for the second. The Leafs are calling it an upper body injury, we’re calling it a mercy pull. Additionally, we tackled the Matthews injury, the initial Zadorov hit, and Max Domi’s third period response to it.

Then, long-time Leafs blue line and 2011 Stanley Cup champion Tomas Kaberle stopped by to weigh in on Toronto’s ugly three game losing skid. Furthermore, Kaberle dissected the d-core and what’s been going wrong for the Leafs – in general –defensively. He thinks there needs to be more trust and that they need to play more like a team. Also, Kaberle reacted to Morgan Rielly passing him for sixth all-time in assists and second among D in Leafs history. Lastly, he dished on if he thinks this Leafs team can figure it out and what it was like to play with Zdeno Chara and Alexander Mogilny, who both were just inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame this past Monday night.

Next up for the Maple Leafs is a date on home ice with the Los Angeles Kings. Speaking of which, former NHLer and co-host of Energy Line with Nate & JSB, Nate Thompson, will stop by the Thursday edition of Leafs Morning Take to tee that one up. Talk at 11 AM ET!