The Toronto Maple Leafs lost 5-3 to the Boston Bruins on Saturday night, and if you bet the farm on a goal from Fraser Minten, you’re a rich person right about now.

It wasn’t their worst effort of the season, and wasn’t really a game they let slip away because of poor play. Instead, it was a bad performance from their starting goaltender combined with timely, rookie-level mistakes.

The tone of the game was set in the first few minutes of the game. Nick Robertson scored on the power play to continue his hot streak since being promoted to the top-six, and by the time a minute passed from the goal, the Bruins were up 2-1. The first one was simply a poor effort from Stolarz – one of those moments where you’d like a save.

Seconds later, the Leafs seemingly punished Stolarz for allowing a soft goal by giving horribly misplaying the puck in front of his net and leaving Bruins forward Viktor Arvidsson with an easy tap-in past Stolarz. The punishment line was kind of said tongue in cheek, but you can’t ignore the irony of such a horrible defensive play happening immediately after a bad beat from the goaltender.

The Bruins added a couple of goals in the second period, leading to Stolarz getting the yank and Dennis Hildeby coming in for him, but the Leafs fought back with a power play goal from John Tavares before the end of the period. The Bruins kept the game tight in the third, and near the end, William Nylander came about as close as you can to scoring a goal without doing it.

Not long after that, who else but Fraser Minten would score the back-breaker to pack things up and ensure the two points for the Bruins. The same Minten the Leafs drafted three years ago and traded to the Bruins at last season’s deadline. Yes, that one. It’s sadly poetic.

Head coach Craig Berube is not going to be happy with the way things spiralled tonight, but they don’t have a lot of time to dwell on it, staring down the barrel of a tilt with the Carolina Hurricanes on Sunday.

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