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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
I don't buy that at all unless you want players like Johnny to just dump the puck deep and sit back in the 3rd period and play for the tie. We all know fans hate it when teams play for a tie so I'm certainly not going to accept that as a basis to support Gulutzan calling out one player for a team loss. This wasn't a defenseman taking a risky pinch to try and create a rush. It was a forward at the middle of the ice trying to skate the puck up ice. There were two forwards and two defensemen between the puck and the net when he lost the puck and the resulting turnover should have never resulted in a goal in the first place so blaming him is just silly.
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That's my issue with his comments too. It just reeks of playing not to lose instead of playing to win. Calling him out in the media when there were other guys on the ice who could have stopped the goal is not going to go over well. It just shows he is getting desperate and we could see the last of him shortly.