If there’s a more irrelevant, tedium-tweedledum and yawn-tweedledee team in all of pro sports than the Columbus Blue Jackets, I can’t think of it.

Still, the Jackets occupy a historical niche in the playoff annals of the Maple Leafs, pulling off what I’d rank among the top three post-season busts by Toronto in the past decade: A five-game flush of the local heroes in the qualifying round, circa 2020, the COVID bubble year.

An opponent seeded ninth in the Eastern Conference knocked off the high-flying, goal-glutted Leafs, leaving the ousted to once again pick up the pieces, as they’ve done in every year of the Auston Matthews-Mitch Marner era. Now Mitch-less.

High water mark for Columbus too. Since joining the NHL, they have the lowest points percentage of any expansion-era franchise and

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