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stemhovlichski wrote on Tue, 04 December 2018 00:04

Adam wrote on Mon, 03 December 2018 22:35

stemhovlichski wrote on Mon, 03 December 2018 21:23

Leaving the goalie pulled when gifted a powerplay with two full minutes left?

I mean, the other team can take long bomb shots without icing the puck if you turn it over. Not sure if it was just a bad decision or a lack of confidence in the PP without McDavid.... I mean Spooner.




There's a school of thought that if you're going to go for it with the goalie pulled, you're better to do it early than late - especially if you have a man advantage anyhow.

The one I didn't understand was pulling the goalie again with 30 seconds to go down 4-1...trying REALLY hard for that all-important 4-2 goal...after burning the second half of the previous powerplay with the fourth liners on the ice for 45 seconds.


Old school of thought was try to go 45-60 seconds 5 on 4 with your G ready to pass up any dumped pucks, tiring out the opposition and then pulling the G for the 6 on 4 hoping the opponent hasn't had a line change. How many empty net goals against this year? 7?

And yes to your second point. Yes indeed. Bringin' back memories of Taylor Hall screaming at Renney.


According to this site - https://morehockeystats.com/teams - seven so far this year, on only 8 pulls. Not certain if the one tonight is already included. We've yet to score with the goalie pulled too.

Other teams have pulled their goalie 10 times against us, scoring once...but we've only managed two empty net goals for...I'd hazard a guess that the gutless style that McLellan preached kept the players from making any attacks on the empty net unless it was a sure thing...



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