TORONTO — Preparing for a third crack at eliminating the Ottawa Senators in the Battle of Ontario, Toronto Maple Leafs coach Craig Berube believes there’s been too much external focus on his best and highest-paid players after they were kept off the scoreboard in Game 5.

The Toronto Maple Leafs and Ottawa Senators are squaring off in Game 6 of their first-round series on Thursday night. Toronto has lost its first two chances to close out Ottawa. They have to head back to the Capital City for their third attempt.

If you watched Game 4 and Game 5 of the Toronto Maple Leafs‘ first-round matchup against the Ottawa Senators, you’d be hard-pressed to believe that the team’s power play was far and away their best asset through the first few games of the series.