Takeaways from 'frustrating' Maple Leafs season: 'Didn’t meet goals or expectations'

The Toronto Maple Leafs want to move on from this season. And quickly, too.“This was a tough year and a frustrating year,” Leafs star centre Auston Matthews said. “We didn’t meet the goals or expectations we set out at the start.”That was the overriding sentiment from their year-end media availability Thursday, which began less than 12 hours after the Leafs’ season ended with a 3-1 loss in Ottawa. Normally, after a playoff series loss, the Leafs would take a day off to process the end of the postseason before meeting media members. But this was not a run-of-the-mill Leafs season. The Leafs finished with the fifth-worst record in the NHL and missed the playoffs for the first time since 2016.Advertisement