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Originally Posted by Otto-matic
Same issue the Flames had in Game 4 last year. Goalie has been letting in softies all series long, Rinnie had a extremely short leash due to it being a elimination game. He game up two stinkers of a goal.
Team loses all confidence after those goals and you need a sparkplug.
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I’ve only been able to watched the condensed versions of the games, I didn’t really notice a lot of softies from Rinne, but maybe I wasn’t watching closely enough. I do remember some big saves that probably would have been goals on most other tenders.
The pull and replace at the break is not common, but it’s not exactly unheard of. I certainly don’t think it’s bizarre. Especially when you have one of the most consistent #1s of the past decade or so. I don’t see it as any different than giving any other player a few shiftable off to recalculate after a bad start.