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The Blue Jackets beat Tampa’s Lightning 3: 1 (2: 1, 0: 0, 1: 0) in the second game of the Toronto Tournament, making it 1-1 in four quarterfinals of the Eastern Conference.
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The Columbus team started the match slowly without throwing a goal, while opponents checked Corpisalo’s vigilance several times. As a result, in the sixth minute of the game, Nikita Kucherov, throwing from the goalkeeper with the awkward side of the stick, sent the puck into the net and achieved 1: 0 in favor of “Lightning”.
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In the second half of the first period, Blue Jackets took the lead. First, in the 13th minute, Ryan Murray reached 1: 1 after Pierre Lick Dibou’s sharp pass to the goal, making a throw without stopping the puck. Less than six minutes later, Oliver Bjorkstrand put Blue Jackets in the lead.
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No goals were scored in the second half of the match, but in the third period, Columbus hockey players strengthened their lead. In the 12th minute of the third, Aleksanders Venbergs skillfully handled the puck from the middle zone after the raid and sent it to the goal – 3: 1.
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Korpisalo repelled 36 shots in this match, but at the end of the second field Andrejs Vasilevskis coped with 19 broadcasts.
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Merzlikins was left out of the application due to injury, so Kivlenieks was applied for the match as the second goalkeeper. To have another puck catcher for the team, Veini Wehvileinen has arrived in Toronto and is currently in quarantine.
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It has already been reported that in the first game of the series, “Blue Jackets” lost 2: 3, the match ended in the fifth extra time.
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The third game in the series is scheduled for Saturday.
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The Blue Jackets had previously beaten the Stanley Cup qualifiers, beating the Toronto Maple Leafs 3-2 in a series of up to three victories.
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A 24-team elimination tournament is taking place in Toronto and Edmonton, with 16 units continuing the fight for the Stanley Cup. First, the teams qualified for the series up to three wins in the “play-off” round, but then switched to the traditional series format for up to four wins.
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