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Originally Posted by robaur
Also...ppl ripping on the team for last night..yes the 1st period was bad but it wasnt 4-0 bad...the goaltending was simply terrible. Joey Mac needs to get his rebound control in order because I noticed that right away when he got subbed in and told my brother sitting next to me....right then....2 awful rebounds and goals. I don't even know wtf he was doing on the powerplay goal. seemed to stand there forever.
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No idea about an awful rebound on the first. Through a screen he deflected it into the corner, and it goes in the corner 95% of the time. Except Steen was right there (probably a bit out of position, late coming out of the corner which is why there were no Flames to mark him) to tap it in.
On the PP goal, it wasn't a rebound. It hit the Blues player's shinpad who was jumping in front and shot from the point and the puck went right to the goal scorer just like it did on the Steen goal. I assume that he saw the initial shot, and because he didn't feel it or hear it, it got tipped away/over the glass. By the time he and everyone realized where it was landed, too late to scramble over.
Third goal looked like a prefect shot given the way it rattled iof the top bar and aropund the top of the net, but timing sucked and considering the player shouldn't have had the puck through the neutral zone to wind up, made it a worse situation. Saveable, maybe.
Not that he played great but looked a lot more confident then Irving. Also, the team wasn't collapsing in front of him like they were Irving (at least later in the Dallas game), almost as if they felt it'd be better to stop the shot instead of it getting through to Irving.
Although Feaster may be feeding us lines about the shuffling to put a positive PR spin, I give him the pass this time. An injury to Kiprusoff, given his decade long longevity, could not have been predicted. Irving was always up here just to open the door, that was clear when the season started given the lack of time in Abbotsford.
Throw in a vet goalie that comes free on the waiver wire into the mix, and cold-warm-cold consistency with Irving (already not in the top of managements good books) in his 6 games, and they're still scrambling to fill the most important position on this team.
I suspect this isn't the end for the goalie shuffle. Today's move coincides with a poor game, plus the justification that he doesn't have to be put on waivers to go down, but would have to tomorrow or anytime in the season after that.
Kiprusoff is likely more then the two weeks away, and who knows, maybe the Jones move is for bringing in a goalie via trade.