At this point, there’s been enough digging into the Columbus Blue Jackets to broadly get an idea of what they’re about, especially relative to the Leafs. This is a matchup where the teams’ strengths will go head to head, and their weaknesses will too. On the face of it, these teams have similar 5v5 results.
The Leafs have a 5v5 GF% and xGF% of 50.2% and 51.9% respectively. For the Jackets, those numbers are 50.7% and 51.7%. The teams have identical PDOs of 0.997 to boot. The way they get to these results is, of course, very different.