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Originally Posted by Gaskal
When you're in the defensive zone as a winger, your man is the opposing D-man at the blueline. So Ekblad should've been Hudler's assignment in the first place, yet all Jiri did was point with his stick and hope Brodie blocked the pass, then was left in no-man's land as Ekblad walked in from the blueline and had a wide open net to score on.
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Yep that was a missed assignment there for sure. Backlund has had quite a few too this year. I will agree that was a lazy play for sure but there hasn't been so many of those this year that they make up for all of the soft goals. The majority of the problems stem from the goalie.