Four different Toronto skaters scored, Auston Matthews, Jack Roslovic, John Tavares and Gavin McKenna, and the Maple Leafs still lost 5-4 to Utah. Offence spread across that many names is not the issue, which sends the diagnosis to the goals-against column.
Utah answered with five different scorers of its own: Daniil But, Vincent Trocheck, Mikhail Sergachev, Dylan Guenther and MacKenzie Weegar. Sergachev's came shorthanded, the most expensive goal in hockey because it erases the power play's value and then charges interest. Scoring that distributed across the opposition points at the system and the personnel behind it, because there is no single line or matchup to adjust.
Toronto is playing without Chris Tanev, who was placed on injured reserve, retroactive to October 10, with an upper-body injury. A defence missing one regular exposes how much of the early-season margin depends on the other pairings holding up. When a team scores four and loses, the fix sits behind the forwards.