But the Leafs getting Muzzin and Rielly back means nothing. TO lost the 5th most man games to injury in the league this year and also was behind only Pittsburgh for the most impactful man games lost. They missed a month of Marner almost 10 games of Tavares, Johnsson missed a lot of time, Muzzin and Rielly, Andersen missed time, Mikheyev as well. Now they are healthy and they also had seen huge improvements defensively prior to the shut down. But I guess none of that matters.

Also I should be considered that TO's numbers were skewed from the change in coaching. Under Bab's there were so bad defensively and then improved a lot under Keefe, apart from the stretch were the shutdown pair was Marincin and Holl, those were tough days. Heading into the shutdown they had cut chances and goals against way down.

It will be a oof of a series... Columbus will have to play like Boston to win... strong defensively and capitalize on their chances. The problem is Columbus won’t get many chances so they’ll have to capitalize on almost all of this chances. Columbus will also have to play a much more physical game on Toronto defence, it’ll end up being players like Gerbe, Robinson, Folingo and Jenner who make the difference for Columbus on how they can play on the forecheck vs Toronto’s d. We’d have to keep the puck away from the Toronto forwards, but then again it’s Matthews, Marner, Tavares and Nylander.... Columbus is going to get blow out in this series. Though, whoever wins gets Boston in the next round.

The good thing is that we won't have to face the 2019 CBJ team