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Maple Leafs coach Sheldon Keefe didn't mince words postgame."I feel like the game just got away from us right from the start," he saidmatter-of- Jazz Chisholm Jersey factly after his team fell apart Thursday night."I didn't like our game in Jorge Alfaro Jersey  the first period. I didn't like our game at 1-0. I didn't like our game at 2-0, 3-0. We just got what we deserved today."I thought we reverted back to a lot of really bad habits. We didn't have any real purpose or plan to our game today. We were just making it up as we go along. We get what we deserved."The Maple Leafs were a period away, in factle Trevor Richards Jersey  s than 13 minutes away, from taking a 2-1 lead in theirbest-of-five NHL qualifying round series vs. the Blue Jackets.Instead, they left the rink Bryan Holaday Jersey  4-3 overtime losers despite taking a 3-0 lead on. Columbus' Pierre-Luc Dubois capped off a hat trick by scoringthe game-winner with under two minutes left in the extra se sion.Following up a dominating Game 2 win with amonumental collapse in Game 3 is "tough to  Starlin Castro Jersey explain," as Keefe  Miguel Rojas Jersey noted, but as he added, "every day's a new day." And Friday is just that, coupled with the fact that it's also a game day. His team will have to quickly forget what occurred on the ice at Scotiabank Arena as it faces eliminationle s than 24 hours later (8 p.m. ET; NHLN, CBC)."It's over now," said Keefe, already looking  Jeff Locke Jersey ahead. "We've got to regroup here. This is what playoff hockey is all about: the emotion, the emotions, the swings of momentum. It's the best part of playoffs here. So a chance to regroup and come back at it  J. T. Realmuto Jersey tomorrow and be a better version of ourselves than we were today."