TORONTO - Brad Treliving met the media earlier this week to talk about his hockey team.

Among the many points made by the Maple Leafs general manager was that Toronto — at the time a struggling, injury-ravaged outfit mired in a five-game winless run — had taken points from outings earlier in the schedule where a different outcome might have been more deserving.

"Even in games that we've won, we haven't won the game," Treliving said Tuesday before a patchwork roster ground out a 3-2 overtime victory against the St. Louis Blues. "Sometimes we've scored more goals."

The veteran executive, for a change, probably felt the club deserved a better fate Thursday night.

Toronto fell in extra time to the Columbus Blue Jackets by the same 3-2 score on another night where the Leafs looked a lot bet

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