WINNIPEG — At the tail end of a nine-games-in-18-days stretch, the Leafs spent their first three-day break of the season talking about adjustments.



They’d lost two in a row and had been outscored 7-1. But Mike Babcock knew what ailed the Leafs, and they were going to use the much-needed time off to make changes and fix it.



The offence had dried up because of a combination of two things. The first was work ethic and a lack of detail. “Those are the things you can fix,” he said.



The second?



“Teams play good against you,” Babcock said (as only he could). “I don’t think you ever want to discredit the other team. But the other thing about our team is once they watch you, they try to defend you. They’ve got a coaching staff, we’ve got a coaching staff, they try to make it hard on the opposition to generate offence but that’s why the game’s so good, is you’ve got to work at it and...