Columbus have taken a bunch of guys who at one point in their professional development were artists and turned them into a bunch of house painters
This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy.For the first half of the game, Columbus goalie Joonas Korpisalo slid around the crease like an overstuffed sectional couch, stopping shots he had no business stopping, but he couldn't prevent John Tavares netting here for the Leafs in the third period.It isn’t often that the Toronto Maple Leafs get to be the heroes of the story.
This time they decided to play punching bag. For huge stretches of the game, Columbus appeared to be inventing a new sort of hockey where the object of the exercise is to possess the puck as little as possible. However, the advantage in terms of the puck was such that even the Toronto Maple Leafs could not find a way to lose. The game ended 3-0. The best-of-five-game series is now tied at one apiece.
But after Columbus hammered Tampa in last season’s playoffs, Blue Jackets hockey got just a little bit sexy. Not much, but enough to be dangerous.The NHL will always have a secret love for teams who play like the Blue Jackets because: a) they fit into the league’s nostalgic “man’s man” stereotypes; b) teams without identifiable stars are easier to manage; and c) it’s harder to look bad when you don’t try all that hard to be good.
But if Columbus continues to score high-profile, against-all-odds knockouts, some bright bulb is going to decide this is the new way to go: New Jersey Devils 2.0, minus the charisma.Columbus may, of course, continue to play Tortorella’s turgid style. There is no law that says highly paid entertainers ought to entertain. There should be, but there isn’t.After the comprehensive defeat, the Columbus players did not appear put out in any way. If anything, they seemed bored .
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