Blue Jackets shut out Maple Leafs in Game 5 of Cup Qualifiers, win series

Joonas Korpisalo made 33 saves, and the Columbus Blue Jackets advanced to the Stanley Cup Playoffs with a 3-0 win against the Toronto Maple Leafs in Game 5 of the Stanley Cup Qualifiers at Scotiabank Arena in Toronto on Sunday.

Columbus will play the Tampa Bay Lightning in the Eastern Conference First Round. It will be a rematch of the first round from last season, when the No. 8-seeded Blue Jackets swept the Presidents' Trophy-winning Lightning. Game 1 of the best-of-7 series is Tuesday (3 p.m. ET; NBCSN, SN, TVAS).

It was Korpisalo's second shutout of the best-of-5 series. He made 28 saves in a 2-0 win in Game 1 in Toronto, the East hub city.

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"Throughout the game you see everyone battling hard in front of you and you want to contribute as well and try to rally yourself for the team and try to do the best and make the big saves at the right moments," Korpisalo said. "And I don't think there were too many chances today. They did a really good job in front of me."

Zach Werenski, Liam Foudy and Nick Foligno scored for Columbus, the No. 9 seed in the East for the Qualifiers.

It was the first series-limit deciding game in Blue Jackets history. None of the other seven qualifier series went five games.

"We just try to go out and play," Columbus coach John Tortorella said. "And, yeah, I'm proud of them. I thought 'Korpy' was outstanding. He made some key saves at key times for us. But it's a good group of men trying to find their way."

Frederik Andersen made 19 saves for Toronto, which has not won a postseason series since defeating the Ottawa Senators in seven games in the 2004 Eastern Conference Quarterfinals.

"It's a game of inches out there," Maple Leafs center Auston Matthews said. "We had some chances, the puck didn't go in the net. It's a tough pill to swallow. It's very disappointing."

Toronto center John Tavares hit the post with a shot at an open right side of the net with 3:44 left in the first period.

"My hand slipped just a tad, got a little bit maybe more on the heel than I wanted to," Tavares said. "Saying that, obviously a great opportunity I want to finish. I still got good wood on it, and unfortunately it was maybe a half an inch, quarter of an inch too much to the right."

The Maple Leafs, who were the No. 8 seed in the East for the Qualifiers, will have a 12.5 percent chance of winning the No. 1 pick in the 2020 NHL Draft in the Second Phase of the NHL Draft Lottery on Monday.

"Hats off to Columbus for the effort that they put forth in this series," coach Sheldon Keefe said. "It's a good team, doesn't give you much. They stay absolutely fully committed into what they are as a group."

Werenski, who left midway through the third period of a 4-3 overtime loss in Game 4 on Friday, made it 1-0 with his first goal of the series at 6:29 of the first period. His wrist shot from the left point went in off defenseman Tyson Barrie.

"I felt pretty good yesterday and just ready to go this morning," said Werenski, who led NHL defensemen with 20 goals in the regular season. "So I said I could play tonight, and I'm happy I could chip in."

Foudy made it 2-0 at 11:40 of the third when he drove along the goal line from the right side and shot between Andersen's pads for his first goal in the NHL.

Foligno scored into an empty net with 23 seconds remaining for the 3-0 final.

Korpisalo returned after starting the first three games. He was pulled with the Blue Jackets trailing 3-0 after 28:48 in Game 3. Elvis Merzlikins replaced him and started Game 4 but was ruled unfit to play Sunday.

"They've been there for us all year, obviously, and this is what we expect from them nowadays," Werenski said of the goalies.

Korpisalo is the second goalie since 1938 and eighth in NHL history to have two shutouts in a best-of-5 series (last used in NHL from 1980-86). Bob Sauve of the Buffalo Sabres shut out the Montreal Canadiens in the first two games of the 1983 Adams Division Semifinals.

"We were all nervous as the season started," Tortorella said. "We had some departures. [Goalie Sergei Bobrovsky] left and all that stuff, and we were nervous about what our goaltending was going to be. We don't have a sniff being here if it's not for those two guys."

Barrie left the game with an injury at 7:31 of the second period. There was no update.

Maple Leafs forward Andreas Johnsson was activated prior to the game after recovering from knee surgery and replaced 18-year-old Nicholas Robertson in the lineup in his first game since Feb. 19.

NHL.com senior writer Dan Rosen contributed to this report