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The last time I saw someone bite as hard as Irving did in the shootout.. someone offered Kyle Wellwood free cake.

I think it's pretty easy to chalk it up to nerves though - first nhl shootout, and probably doesn't have a very good read on a lot of shooters yet. He'll get better over time. The Parise attempt was clumsy, but he made a good effort to get back in position after the fake. If he was a little more active with his stick after that he may have stopped it. The Koivu one.. laughable save attempt for sure, but it's a save he has to make in order for the team to win - that's a lot of pressure for a young goalie who's playing his (I think) first home game (this season anyways), first shootout, and the team playing pretty poorly in front of him.

I'm willing to give him a pass on it. Definitely not pinning the loss on him.

More telling to me was the flames shooters.. To say Hudler was head and shoulders better than the other flames shooters would be understatement of the year. Jones and Tanguay had nothing - no head fakes, no leg lifts, no fake shots.. just a slow and predictable single move deke that wouldn't work often in a decent beer league.