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Originally Posted by Bingo
I saw Monahan close to the goal scorer but gliding ...
Odd play either way.
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I'm with you on that one. Watching the highlights again, Monahan's ahead of the goalscorer at the blueline but he just glides towards the puck and doesn't even take one glance over his shoulder. Just a poor job reading the play on his part. If you're playing C and there's a 50/50 puck in your zone you can't just assume your D will win it, you've gotta at least recognize that Wilson's going backdoor and take a stride or two towards covering that.
It was a bit of a soft play by Hanifin as well, but I'm ok with his read there. If he does a better job getting his stick in the passing lane he could've prevented it as well, so it's more of an execution error on his part. I've got a much bigger problem with Monahan being lazy than Hanifin executing the right play poorly.