Anyone who says that it's Sigalet's fault, or Treliving's fault or Gulutzen's fault is completely flat out wrong. It's 100% Brian Elliott's fault. All the bad goals he gave up was due to his poor technical ability. How is that a goalie coaches fault that he gave up peewee level goals in the most important time of the year? He showed all season long that he has a weak glove hand and poor tracking ability. Letting in 1 or 2 soft goals in a series isn't good, Elliott gave up about 7-8.
There's a reason why Ottawa didn't want him and there's a reason why St. Louis didn't want him and even acquired Miller and Brodeur because they lost faith in him. I am very weary of goaltenders who lose their jobs now because there's probably an inherent flaw in them like we've seen from Hiller and Elliott now.
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