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Originally Posted by Textcritic
That first goal had everything to do with the lively boards at Consol Energy Center. It was a bad break. With more experience playing in every NHL building, it is the sort of bad break that Ortio would very quickly learn to avoid. In the end, it is silly to complain about or to criticise him for it because on the whole he played very well.
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Let's not step away from the current goaltending zeitgeist.
The reason that he "played well on the whole" is that the ref had a quick whistle on what would have been PIT's third.
According to sv%, if the ref allows that one, he actually played slightly below average, on the whole.