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Originally Posted by DomeFoam
Gillies made a number of massive saves on how many breakaways/2 on 1s we gave up tonight?
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Not surprisingly, those odd man chances were after he let in a soft 1st goal and below average second goal.
The team then has zero confidence in that he's going to make the next save and starts to panic and press and get out of the weak structure and confidence they did have.
The timing of the very average goals against, late in the first in a weak fake against Gillies in Dallas turned the game around, along with him using the rim around on the second goal,are killer, as they were tonight.
Rittich getting beaten cleanly twice after the Flames up 2-0. Again, it then had the rest of the team worried about every next half chance COL had, a feeling they don't have with Smith bailing them out and making the average and above average saves night in and night out. Colorado had full confidence as the Flames get out of sorts trying not to force their goalie to make saves. And then tonight, they fall apart after the missed Backlund chance turns into a so so goal.against Gillies, and that was thst.
With no confidence in the coach to do or say any thing, the team drifts off but it sttarts these last games with below average goals going in.