TORONTO — After Anthony Stolarz smashed his goalie stick to shards, he stood tall and alone at the deep end of the Toronto Maple Leafs dressing room and began to spew flames of truth.

The losing goaltender had, as is his custom, played his heart out, coming up big on Grade-A looks and odd-man rushes. Yet Stolarz had been trampled, knocked down and left all alone on defenceman Josh Mahura’s clock-freezing overtime rush that delivered a 4-3 victory for the Seattle Kraken, a team with far less star power but far more will power on this night.

In a postgame scrum that was cut short before it could touch three minutes, Stolarz hit more nails on the head than an overbooked carpenter.

“It was a good third period, but the first two periods, we kind of let them walk all over us. And we just didn

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