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Vandelay wrote:wprager wrote:NEELY wrote:Yaaaaaah Phillips got walked there.
Karlsson had plenty of time to do something more than give Hemsky a stern look (if he even did that much); Anderson could try a poke check every once in a while. Three goals, all of them stoppable. Karlsson standing around on two of them. Turris hasn't done much in how long? MacArthur gets a pass because he won them the last game.
But explain to me why Conacher The Waived was on the ice with 30 seconds to go with the season on the line yet again, while the guy you traded three assets for who's scored 30+ goals in each of his full seasons in the league is sitting on the bench? Hoffman, same thing -- love his hustle and all, but is he really the one to put out in the last minute to score a game tying goal? They're done.
That first goal is completely on Phillips. Anderson not coming up with the stop is because there's no way Phillips can let the player get a lane on him that easily. I think he just lost a year in the contract negotiating with that play.
It's a team sport. When one guy makes a mistake there's supposed to be others to back him up. Not blaming the goal on Karlsson but he could have come across and killed Hemsky if he wanted to (same with Neil, as someone already pointed out -- maybe the Sens were thinking of acquiring him so told them to lay off?) And, again, not blaming the goal on Anderson but I could have let that goal in just as well. He's an NHL level starter who set a modern day record for SV% in a season -- that was a stoppable puck. If he poke checks it's not even an "OMGDIDYOUSEETHATSAVE???!" moment.
On the second goal you could argue he was interfered with. The guy skated into his crease and made contact about a second before the puck went in. Anderson was being crowded in his crease all game -- maybe he needs to take a bit of a dive once in a while. Or maybe his D should be patrolling the crease instead of the blue line.
