Joonas Korpisalo made 28 saves in his first post-season start as the Blue Jackets shut out the Maple Leafs in Game 1.
Alex Wennberg scored into an empty net with 18.2 seconds left.stopped 33 shots for Toronto, which was the "home" team inside the friendly confines of a cavernous, empty Scotiabank Arena as the Eastern Conference’s No. 8 seed in the NHL’s 24-team restart to a campaign halted by the COVID-19 pandemic 4 1/2 months ago.
Leafs head coach Sheldon Keefe, who played 95 of his 125 NHL games under Columbus bench boss John Tortorella when both were with the Tampa Bay Lightning in the early 2000s, employs a much different style than his former bench boss. Toronto prefers an offensive-minded, puck-possession game, while the Blue Jackets grind opponents down, forcing them to fight for every inch of ice.
The Columbus netminder had his bench up banging their sticks on the boards later in the period when he robbed Matthews with the glove on a one-timer.
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