How Twitter reacted to Maple Leafs’ incredible comeback win

The Toronto Maple Leafs had only four minutes to save their season while down three goals to the Columbus Blue Jackets, they score three times in 3:32 from William Nylander, John Tavares and Zach Hyman to send the game to overtime.

You’d be excused if you were a Maple Leafs fan who tuned out of Friday’s Game 4 with less than five minutes left. They were done. They looked done. Columbus had all the momentum, a 3-0 lead, and the Leafs seemed to just be going through the motions.

It was all setting up as another disappointing conclusion to the season.

And then history happened.

With Frederik Andersen pulled, Toronto started to show new life, pushed hard and the scales began to improbably tip. First William Nylander scored. Fine, 3-1. Then John Tavares sniped one under the bar and suddenly it was a one-goal game. Pierre-Luc Dubois, Columbus’s best player all series, had a shot at an empty net to end it, and barely missed, hitting the outside of the netting instead.

It was all so unbelievable. The Leafs found a way to score three times, all without a goaltender, in a span of 3:34, and brought it to overtime.

It wouldn’t have been enough to just get to OT, but the Leafs won it as well. Nylander, Tavares, Zach Hyman and Auston Matthews are credited on the score sheet with the defining goals, but there’s was more to it than just them.

Mitch Marner played a role, the fourth line was out grinding away at key moments — and even Jason Spezza fought. The Leafs showed life they hadn’t through most of that game, leading to one of the most memorable moments for Toronto hockey fans in quite some time.

“I don’t even know what to say,” Matthews explained after the game about what it was like being part of that wild Game 4. “What a comeback.”

And, we bet, a whole bunch of optimism ahead of Sunday night’s Game 5.

In an elimination Friday, every game ended with someone being sent home except this one. The Maple Leafs had the gloomiest outlook of them all at one point, and somehow came out winners on the other end.

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Here’s how Twitter reacted to the comeback:

https://twitter.com/aanoosh2825/status/1291929925042266112

https://twitter.com/justinbbradford/status/1291925202717335555

https://twitter.com/GoLeafsGoDaniel/status/1292100805277945857

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