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Originally Posted by GranteedEV
All of them are responsible. Hiller's style keeps the puck in play in dangerous areas where most NHL goaltenders would have frozen the puck and the team would have swapped in Gio/Brodie and all would have been merry. Nothing he could have done on the first goal (well, other than make a great save) against but on the next two there's plenty of blame to go around.
I'm not saying all of those guys weren't goats tonight, because they were, but people are selling Backlund a bit short for the body of work in the whole game. Guy had a 33% offensive zone start and finished with 71.43% possession at even strength. Can't get too fixated on one or two plays.
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You won't get an argument out of me on Hiller rebound control. Only Ramo's is much...much worse. Just cannot expect Hiller to Stop goal #1 and goal #3. Straight up, those two goals were not on him.
As far as Backlund goes, I truly believe we have a better Backlud on the farm in Bill Arnold. From the fancy stats all the way up to points production.
If I was the GM and wanting to make a knee jerk trade, I trade Backlund first, for whatever, then Call up Arnold and I swear you not even miss Backs for one second. This is coming from a stout Backlund defender over the years. It's just time to move to the younger better guys.