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After striking late in the 3rd period with a goal from Nylander , the Leafs complete the comeback after being shut down all game and being down 3-0 . The Leafs answered back with 3 goals in the last 4 minutes of the game to take it into OT and win it to avoid elimination. Matthews was the overtime Hero .

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#Game Time: 8pm Eastern / 7pm Central / 5pm Pacific / 3am Latvia

#Location: Toronto - Eastern Conference Hub

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Jonas Korpisalo pitched a shutout - shutdown performance tonight after being pulled in the middle of Game 3 of this series to make the Leafs packing and ending their hopes at a cup run this year

The Toronto Maple Leafs are currently at 53 consecutive Cup-less seasons (1967-68 season to present).

The New York Rangers had 53 consecutive Cup-less seasons from 1940-41 to 1992-93, winning the Cup in the 54th season.

If the Maple Leafs do not make the playoffs, or get eliminated, next season, they will make NHL history with 54 consecutive seasons without a Stanley Cup win.

EDIT: This is actually incorrect. I forgot that 2004-05 was not a season. So the Leafs are at 52 consecutive Cup-less seasons, which means they will need two more Cup-less seasons to surpass the Rangers. We will reconvene to shitpost about the Leafs after they are eliminated next year and in the 2021-22 playoffs.

Before you say Tyson Barrie, or Cody Ceci, let me make some points.

While Lou Lamoriello made some good moves, his bad ones almost set Dubas up to fail. Signing Zaitsev for 7 years and $4.5M, Patrick Marleau 3 years and $6.25M were too long and too much and put the Leafs in Cap Hell before he was even hired. Dubas was able to not only get those off-loaded, but fix some of their biggest holes. Jake Muzzin is a big #2 defenseman and John Tavares, well, you know. And while the Tyson Barrie trade didn’t land, nobody is perfect, and at the time, Barrie looked like a better fit. In my opinion I would’ve moved Kapanen instead but that is just me. Dubas improves their D-Core and kept them in the Cap. He has done all the things to try and get this core to work. We’ve seen him try to be crafty, so I would like to see him get something more for the D Core, like a solid 2nd pairing D-Man who is defensive. He has taken some chances, and he struck gold with Muzzin, and missed with Barrie. I

What did the hockey world do to deserve this nightmare?

#FINAL SCORE: 2-0 Blue Jackets

#SERIES: 3-2 Blue Jackets Win!!

Shots: 22 [CBJ] - 33 [TOR]

GAME RECAP

1st Period:

6:29 Zach Werenski (1)

2nd Period:

no scoring

3rd Period:

11:40 Liam Foudy (1) ASST: Gustav Nyquist, Seth Jones

19:37 Foligno

NOTES:

• Foudy's first NHL goal.

• Korpisalo's 2nd shutout of the series.

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Blue Jackets vs. Lightning - Tuesday, August 11th @ 3pm

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Let's go back to that fateful night that created the legend of David Ayres. What if that game had ended the way everyone expected it to?

Reseeding the qualifying round

If Toronto had won that game and Carolina lost, the Eastern Conference standings would look a bit different: https://i.imgur.com/aZQQ2P3.png

As a result, the qualifying round looks like so:

5 vs 12: Pittsburgh vs. Montreal. No change to result.
6 vs 11: NYR vs Toronto. Hard to say who wins this matchup, but it doesn't matter as we'll see later.
7 vs 10: NYI vs Florida. The Islanders won their qualifier and the Panthers didn't, so let's say the Islanders win this matchup. Edit: I am technically correct, so I'm going to leave this.
8 vs 9: Columbus vs Carolina. Again, hard to say who wins, but it doesn't matter. Either team would get lottery ball #1.

The lottery The balls were dropped in alphabetical order by team geography. If we look at the order of the balls in our theoretical scenari

Tampa is having all the same problems. They are out shooting and out chancing Cbj. The blue jackets are riding some super hot goal tending and taking advantage of every lightning mistake. They are smothering an offensive powerhouse and then exposing defensive breakdowns. It’s like looking backwards in time.

Honestly this is Carlyle hockey only effective and with elite goaltending.

Can this strategy win a cup? Why doesn’t every team play this way?

I was thinking about this last night and honestly, maybe it’s just that it’s been drilled into me as a Leafs fan, but the cup drought doesn’t bother me as much as this 0 series wins streak does.

Championship droughts happen, look across all 4 major sports and you’ll find teams that haven’t won in a long time or at all. So that little fact doesn’t make me feel as bad. I think it’s a just a by-product of leagues having 30+ teams nowadays, making it harder then ever to win.

The fact that we haven’t won a playoff series in 16 years and counting is.... shocking to me. They haven’t beaten a team in the playoffs not named the Ottawa Senators in 18 years. I think it’s worse because it just reinforces the mediocrity the Leafs have represented for the last 50+ years, combined with how the Leafs lost a few of those series... man.

#FINAL SCORE: 4-3 OT

#SERIES: 2-1 JACKETS BABY

Shots: 43 [CBJ] - 36 [TOR]

GAME RECAP

1st Period:

18:52 SHG Cody Ceci (1) ASST: Alexander Kerfoot, Kasperi Kapanen

2nd Period:

7:08 William Nylander (1) ASST: Mitchell Marner, Auston Matthews

8:48 Nick Robertson (1) ASST: Kasperi Kapanen, Alexander Kerfoot

11:39 Pierre-Luc Dubois (1) ASST: Zach Werenski (1), Cam Atkinson (2)

3rd Period:

7:28 Seth Jones (1) ASST: none

10:49 Pierre-Luc Dubois (2) ASST: Cam Atkinson (3), David Savard (2)

Overtime

18:49 Pierre-Luc Dubois (3) ASST: Alexandre Texier (1)

NOTES:

• First time all season CBJ came back from three down to tie the game.

• Dubois notches the first postseason hat trick in Blue Jackets history

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#Game Time: 4pm Eastern / 3pm Central / 1pm Pacific / 11pm Latvia

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## Blue Jackets (1-0) @ Leafs (0-1)

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