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Tampa Bay Lightning, Columbus Blue Jackets face off again this afternoon after 5-OT marathon Tuesday night

Tampa Bay Lightning goaltender Andrei Vasilevskiy, right, clears the puck under pressure from Columbus Blue Jackets center Nathan Gerbe during the first period in Game 1 of their Stanley Cup first-round playoff series on Tuesday in Toronto. (Frank Gunn/The Canadian Press via AP)

The Tampa Bay Lightning and Columbus Blue Jackets are facing one more challenge than the rest of the teams in the pandemic-altered NHL playoffs.

Tampa Bay and Columbus will be back on the ice less than 48 hours after the Lightning outlasted the Blue Jackets with a five-overtime win in the fourth-longest game in league history.

“It was obviously a crazy game,” Tampa Bay defenseman Kevin Shattenkirk said. “Something that most of us have probably never been a part of before and it was great to come out on the right side of that.”

Game 2 today (3 p.m., NBC Sports Network) will come quickly for second-seeded Tampa Bay and seventh-seeded Columbus in their Eastern Conference series that opened with a game that needed six-plus hours to determine a winner.

“We’re going to be ready because I think we’re going to see the best version of the Columbus Blue Jackets at 3 o’clock,” Shattenkirk said.

Columbus coach John Tortorella, hoping to help his players bounce back, showed some mercy on Wednesday.

“We did have a practice scheduled,” Tortorella said. “We’d like to move the blood a little bit before you play another game, but we cancelled that.”

With a hard-driving coach, the Blue Jackets shrugged when asked repeatedly about how taxing it was physically and mentally to play so long.

“We would not like to play that many periods, but we’re fully capable of handling that load and don’t feel any worse for the wear right now,” Blue Jackets forward Nick Foligno insisted. “We’re excited about the opportunity after a tough one. We’re a team that always seems to put things behind us.”

Brayden Point got the puck past Joonas Korpisalo in the middle of the fifth overtime after the goaltender made an NHL-record 85 saves and Blue Jackets teammate Seth Jones had a league-record NHL-record for a skater with 65 minutes, six seconds of ice time.

The Lightning and Blue Jackets are matched up in the first round for the second straight year, giving Tampa Bay a shot at redemption. Columbus became the first No. 8 seed to eliminate the winner of the Presidents’ Trophy in four games, sending the Lightning home in 2019.

Also in the Eastern Conference playoffs, fourth-seeded Boston and fifth-seeded Carolina will have a quick turnaround after also needing multiple overtimes to decide a series-opening game.

The Bruins and Hurricanes will face off tonight (8 p.m. NBCSN) — about 30 hours after Patrice Bergeron scored in in double overtime to lift Boston to a 4-3 win. Game 1 was postponed 15 hours to a late-morning start because Tampa Bay and Columbus were playing on the same sheet of ice.

Two Western Conference teams will have a shot to take two-game leads in their series when top-seeded Vegas faces eight-seeded Chicago (5:30 p.m. NBCSN) and sixth-seeded Calgary plays third-seeded Dallas (10:30 p.m. NBCSN) tonight.

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