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Canada's "songbird" Anne Murray Tweets: "I wish the Leafs were better."

 

It was another stinker at the Air Canada Centre for the Toronto Maple Leafs as they lost 4-to-1 loss to the Boston Bruins on Saturday.

During the game, legendary Canadian singer Anne Murray decided to weigh in on their performance via Twitter.

The Maple Leafs (3-4-0) had a .500 record entering play and had just come off a 5-2 road victory over a the revamped New York Islanders on Tuesday.

While they have yet to lose in regulation away from home (2-0-1), so far in this young season the Maple Leafs' worst performances have come at home where they are now 1-4-0.

Two weeks ago their lacklustre performance in a 5-2 loss to the Pittsburgh Penguins prompted one fan to toss his jersey onto the ice. Less than a week later on Oct 17. when they were again thoroughly outplayed in 4-1 loss to the Detroit Red Wings, a second jersey was hurled onto the ice surface in disgust.

Now to compound the fan sentiment, the 69-year-old known as Canada's "songbird" has thrown in her two-cents.

Murray, who has built a reputation of being guarded over her nearly five-decade long career, has sold millions of albums.

She was the first Canadian female solo singer to reach No. 1 on the U.S. charts, and also the first to earn a gold record. She's sold 54 million records and has won four Grammy Awards, 24 Juno Awards, three American Music Awards and three CMA Awards             (ctvnews.ca / 10/30/2009)

The 69-year-old from Springhill, NS., is best known for songs such as "Snowbird" (1971)  and "You needed me" (1978).

She sang The Maple Leaf Forever, to conclude the closing ceremony after the final game at Maple Leaf Gardens on Feb. 13, 1999.

After losing to the Bruins, the Maple Leafs' dressing room was closed for an extended period of time while head coach Randy Carlyle and the team discussed their woeful play.

"It seems that the first goal seems to sink our group and then the squeezing of the sticks (starts)," Carlyle said about the three blowout losses at the ACC this season. "I think the pressure of playing at home when things don't go well - that's the difference. I think the first sign of adversity at home, it seems to multiply."

The Maple Leafs have only opened the scoring once in five home games this season, the goal came against the Colorado Avalanche in their lone victory at the ACC on Oct. 14.

Wether the problem at home is mental, physical or a combination of both, forwad Joffrey Lupul feels he and his teammates need to figure it out - and fast.

"We've shown we can do it on the road, it's the same game, it's just for whatever reason we're nervous or  tight or think things are going be easy on home ice," he said. "I'm not sure exactly what it is but we gotta' fix it and we will."

Their next chance is on Tuesday when they host the offensively challenged Buffalo Sabres.

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