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TORONTO — The Maple Leafs will play their first meaningful hockey game in nearly five months on Sunday, when they open a best-of-five qualifying-round playoff series against the Columbus Blue Jackets. And it's a night rookie Nick Robertson will be unlikely to ever forget, as the 18-year-old projects to make his NHL debut for Toronto.
for weeks, and in Tuesday’s preseason tilt Robertson notched one assist in 10:11 minutes of ice time. Still, Keefe had previously sidestepped confirming whether Robertson would play on Sunday, opting to leave his options open until the last minute. When the NHL’s regular season was shuttered by the COVID-19 pandemic in mid-March, Columbus was giving up the third-fewest goals in the league at 2.61 per game, while the Leafs were allowing the sixth-most at 3.17.
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