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Originally Posted by Ace
I agree with him, was at the game and of course you're like 'that's a weak goal', but looking back on replay it's a miracle that it sneaked through. His pad was down flat on the ice which should have pushed it into the corner.
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I would have rather he tried to get square to the puck and stop it with his body behind the puck.
One thing that became noticeable in the series to me was that Elliott didn't seem to be aggressive at all in his crease and was never square to the puck.
If you look at Gibson on shots from the outside or angles he always made sure he was square to the puck and would gobble them up in his stomach.
Elliott was the opposite. He would always be deeper and cheating a little more which led to him waving his glove at pucks more and poor rebounds since he was never square to the shooter. He needed to let his d-men worry about taking away the pass and focus on making a clean save on the first shot, something he did very rarely all series.