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Old 01-04-2014, 01:46 PM   #478
JayP
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It's pretty obvious that Canada was outplayed, but I think any reference to bad bounces is ridiculous.

That first goal was a complete product of lazy play by Fucale IMO. The puck took a bad hop from the corner boards on a relatively weak dump-in and he was already on the far post looking away from the puck. In a regular season game you can get away with that, but in an elimination game you can't get lazy and cheat and act like that's the first bad hop you've ever seen (especially playing in an unfamiliar rink). It certainly was a bad bounce, but it's impact was completely preventable given where it came from.

I may be too hard on Fucale, but in a game where the guy at the other end is playing his ass off you can't afford to be lazy at any point.
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