You won’t find one reason that the Columbus Blue Jackets defeated the Toronto Maple Leafs in Game 5 – there were several. The whole tenor of the series was always going to come down to which team’s style (defensive discipline for Columbus, high-powered offense for Toronto) would win out and the Jackets certainly won that category. In net, Toronto’s Frederik Andersen was once again the second-best goaltender in a series and this time perhaps third-best, behind the Jackets tandem of Joonas Korpisalo and Elvis Merzlikins.
But it’s truly hard not to point the first finger at the Maple Leafs’ tendency to be too cute.