from Mark Spector of Sportsnet,

Ryan McLeod was like the kid who played with fire, and then watched the whole barn burn down.

And up in smoke with that barn went two points that the Edmonton Oilers absolutely wasted in a 7-4 loss to the Toronto Maple Leafs.

“Self-inflicted wounds,” was how Evander Kane best described it.

“You can't you can't give a team like that anything easy,” echoed Ryan Nugent-Hopkins.

With his team holding a comfortable 3-1 second-period lead, McLeod committed the cardinal sin. He passed the puck through his own slot.

Not up the boards. Not a bank shot off the end boards to the defenceman on the other side.

McLeod did what every Canadian kid knows to be the equivalent of, “Never lick the soccer posts on a cold winter day.” He moved the puck through the danger zone, which just happened to be inhabited by one of the most skilled hockey players on the planet — Mitch Marner.

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