Time for Babcock to come under some criticism as to how his charges are playing.  Your Leafs definitely did not respond to whatever that gimmick was the previous day with practice.  As prior coaches with this team have complained, the players won't play defence.  None of the other coaches could get them to, and it doesn't look as if His Niblets can either.

The roster contains previous few who know how to play, as the cliche goes, a 200' game.  Chances of getting many of the current roster to change their style of play, slim.

So, that means you start sniffing around for who's available who might fit the bill, and don't mean trading forwards for d-man, talking forwards for other forwards who can skate, check, cover their man, got hockey smarts.

Gonna cost you, if you wanna go that way.  The other more likely option is that MLSE goes "we're still in re-build" route, to provide cover for the disappointment.