Three straight regulation losses aren't a good sign. Exactly how much of a problem are the various underlying trends?

The Dallas Stars face the Toronto Maple Leafs Tuesday night for the second and final time this season. Entering Tuesday's match, the Stars are 27-14-1 while the Maple Leafs are 27-15-2. Dallas is 93-99-33 all-time vs. Toronto, including a 39-55-20 mark on the road.

It's hard to pick an aspect of the game where the Leafs played well, turning what could have been a coin-flip into a routine win for Dallas.

The Toronto Maple Leafs head coach felt his players delivered. The result, however, was more of the same. And now a team that did well to grasp a new system in the first half of the NHL season is facing its first real bumps in the road.