You could have been convinced last season that Craig Berube and the Maple Leafs had something figured out. They weren’t perfect by any means but they were predictable in an important way.

If the Leafs had a lead, they were awfully good at keeping it. They were 35-1-1 in games in which they led at the second intermission, a .946 win percentage that ranked fourth in the league. They were 5-0 in the playoffs under the same circumstances.

So it’s jarring to see the predominant way in which the Leafs have been allowing games to slip away during a five-game winless streak. Case in point: They turned a 2-1 second-intermission lead into a 3-2 regulation loss in Chicago on Saturday night.

The Leafs have led after two periods and come away with something less than two points in three of the

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