The MapleLeafs defeated the BlueJacketsNHL 3-0 on Tuesday to even their best-of-five qualifying round series.
TORONTO — Auston Matthews scored late in the second period to finally solve Columbus goalie Joonas Korpisalo as thedefeated the Blue Jackets 3-0 on Tuesday to even their best-of-five qualifying round series at one game apiece.
Muzzin tried to get up and appeared to be moving his extremities, but couldn’t rise to his skates. He was attended to by a trainer before more medical personnel arrived on the ice. The bruising blue-liner was eventually taken off on a stretcher inside a silent Scotiabank Arena as both teams tapped their sticks.Game 3 of the tightly-contested showdown goes Thursday night.
The goal sequence was one of the few where Blue Jackets defenceman Seth Jones wasn’t out against Matthews, and the Leafs’ star centre made them pay. Leafs defenceman Justin Holl had golden opportunity pinching down, but Korpisalo was there again as Columbus barely touched the puck in the middle period.
Columbus, which stunned the Presidents’ Trophy-winning Tampa Bay Lightning in a first-round sweep last spring before losing stars Artemi Panarin, Matt Duchene and Sergei Bobrovsky in free agency, tried to push early in the third. But with Werenski caught down low in the offensive zone, Tavares, who had a rough Game 1, was sprung free on a break and beat Korpisalo under the blocker at 4:56.
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