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Columbus -1½ +185 over Toronto

7:05 PM ET. Regulation only. Toronto finally snapped its five-game skid on Tuesday, but don’t kid yourself — nothing has been “fixed.” That win was a sweat-soaked OT escape against a Blues team that has forgotten how to close and forgotten how to score. The Leafs celebrated like they’d just slayed a dragon, but the truth is they barely got out of the driveway.

This is still a depleted, rattled roster missing Auston Matthews, Chris Tanev, Anthony Stolarz and now Matthew Knies, who joined the injury pile just before puck drop. They’ve been gifted a home-heavy schedule — 14 of their first 21 games at home — yet they’ve walked out of November with a five-game losing streak and a whole lot of soul searching. Toronto is 1-5 on the road and somehow looks just as shaky at home.

Meanwhile, Columbus rolls into town off a back-to-back — the exact spot where a fragile favorite is ripe to get ambushed. The Jackets had their five-game points streak snapped in Winnipeg, but the real story is how hard this team is working and how much confidence they’ve built. They just survived Montreal, pushed Winnipeg early, and remain a completely different animal than the one Toronto saw in October.

Zach Werenski just became the first Columbus defenseman ever to hit 400 points, Kirill Marchenko is on fire, and the Jackets’ effort level is night-and-day compared to the Leafs’ nightly coin flip. Columbus doesn’t sag when something goes wrong — Toronto does. Every time the Leafs face a push, they wobble.

Yes, Nylander bailed them out Tuesday with an OT winner … only moments after he literally batted the puck into his own net. That’s the Leafs right now: self-inflicted wounds followed by moments of individual brilliance just to survive. That’s not a profile you lay wood with. That’s a profile you fade — aggressively.

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