How did CBJ pull off the sweep against the TBLightning? AndrewBerkshire looks at a couple of factors that led to the shocking upset.
or an agent of chaos. If you predicted the Blue Jackets would sweep the top-seeded team in the league, which tied the record for most wins in a season, you were trolling.
It was easy to see Columbus struggling a bit after the deadline and think there wasn’t enough time for them to pull it all together. But when you’re wrong you have to own it, and the Blue Jackets have proven a lot of people wrong, so let’s get into how they did it. Sergei Bobrovsky’s brilliance was staggering as the Blue Jackets closed down the series in Game 4, especially his performance against the ridiculous number of chances the Lightning were able to generate off the cycle.April 17 2019To the Jackets’ credit, one area they were able to outdo the Lightning was attacking off the rush.
For all of these stats, the lower the percentage, the better, and once again it doesn’t look like the results match up to what was happening in the series. Because of those cognitive biases, when Lightning coach Jon Cooper was interviewed on the bench during Game 4 and said he felt that his team was handling it well, he wasn’t completely crazy. It’s just that the few times they didn’t handle it well, Columbus managed to pounce on Tampa hard and add to their lead or break a tie.
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