The Hockey News Big Show is here to look around the NHL playoffs and beyond with former NHL player Drew Shore providing some unique insight.

In their biggest home game in decades, the Toronto Maple Leafs were beaten 6-1 by the Florida Panthers. Their captain, Auston Matthews, offered a stern message to his team after the beatdown Wednesday.

The Maple Leafs have been led by the steady hand of Craig Berube all season. The 2019 St Louis Blues faced a ton of adversity, but Berube led them to greatness. When this Leafs team faced adversity against the Senators, Berube turned down the temperature and led them to a win. Can he do it again on Friday?

Maple Leafs fans made their feelings about Auston Matthews quite clear on Wednesday night. A member of the Toronto faithful tossed Matthews’ jersey onto the ice as the team was in the midst of getting dismantled 6-1 by the Panthers at ScotiaBank Arena.

We have to go back a long way for the last all-Canadian conference final. All the way back to 1994, when the Canucks beat the Maple Leafs in the Western Conference final.

The Toronto Maple Leafs dropped Game 5 of their second-round playoff series to the Florida Panthers. Toronto is now down 3-2 in the series, and they will be

As such, there's a possibility that Wednesday night's 6–1 defeat in Game 5 against the Florida Panthers was his final home game at Scotiabank Arena. When asked about that by reporters after the game, Marner made clear that he's focused on Game 6, rather than his future with the organization.

The Toronto Maple Leafs face the Florida Panthers in Game 5 of the second-round of the NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs on Wednesday, May 14, 2025.

The lights couldn’t be brighter, and the noise couldn’t be any louder after the Toronto Maple Leafs didn’t just lose Game 5, they were humiliated.