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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.
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I've been reluctant to blame the goalies since our general team game has been atrocious. But I think I'm officially done with Hiller. On the play where he got hurt, he actually managed to bounce a rebound into the middle of his crease off of a shot that was (arguably) slightly wide of his right post. I would think goalie fundamentals 101 dictates you just kick that into the corner / wide of the net rather than kicking it back into your crease. I'm not sure if his crouch made it difficult to do, but if he just deflects that into the corner, he doesn't get run.
Regardless, his fundamentals and concentration are just subpar. Perhaps his confidence is low, but the team doesn't have time to help him work it out.