OTTAWA -- The Toronto Maple Leafs will try for a third time to eliminate the Ottawa Senators in the Eastern Conference First Round when the two teams meet in Game 6 of the best-of-7 series at Canadian Tire Centre on Thursday (7 p.m. ET; CBC, TVAS, SN, TBS, MAX). Easier said than done.

As the Toronto Maple Leafs prepare for Game 6 against the Ottawa Senators, the hockey world (particularly Leafs Nation) is bracing for what feels like an all-too-familiar storyline: another collapse in the Auston Matthews era.

The talk about the Toronto Maple Leafs has shifted greatly from their first three games against the Ottawa Senators to the last two.