Tappara-TPS 6-3. Ortio 16/21, 27:56 mins. Five goals against... better luck next time. He earned himself back-to-back starts, that's positive. And of those five goals he should have got one, maybe two so loss wasn't all his fault. Couple goals from one-timers and another two from high shots from short range. Those are tough for any goalie but maybe he has work to do to prevent those kind of goals. Play in Elite League is much faster than in lower levels and goalie needs to think more, needs to be all the time aware where the puck is [as grown men are bigger and they go harder to net than juniors=goalie needs to lurk behind players to find the puck] and puck moves among men so fast that goalie needs to predict plays before it happens. Those are things goalie's learn when they get more expierenced so I wouldn't call for example reading the play as Ortio's weakness. He just needs more tough games and he'll be fine.
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