The Toronto Maple Leafs suffered yet another brutal early exit from the Stanley Cup Playoffs, as they lost Game 7 of the series against the  Tampa Bay Lightning at home Saturday night to the tune of a 2-1 score. There are several reasons for the Maple Leafs to feel disgruntled after that loss. For one, their usually productive offense coughed up just a goal in Game 7; their 60-goal scorer was not able to make his presence felt outside of an assist to Morgan Reilly; and perhaps the most frustrating of them all: Toronto melted once again in a potential game-clincher.

Via JFresh:

The Leafs have lost a winner-take-all final game in five straight playoff series.

The probability of that having happened? 0.0036%, or 1 in 27,778.

The Stanley Cup is arguably the hardest trophy to win in sports. The NHL postseason has its strange ways of making great teams look extremely vulnerable and underdogs look like giant slayers. The Lightning aren't exactly the little guy in the league, as they are, after all, the two-time Stanley Cup champion, but the Maple Leafs had the 3-2 series lead after five games in the series. They lost Game 6 on the road in overtime (4-3) before their offense got silenced by Andrei Vasilevskiy in Game 7.

There will be plenty of questions to answer for Toronto in the offseason.