The (failure to take a) timeout situation vs Tampa is the one time that the people who shout about it are actually right.
In that case, the top line had just scored to get the game within one, then just spent a good shift in control, and Johnny was asking for it, a few times on the way to the bench.
Throwing out Lucic, Bennett etc. rather than taking a time out worked about as well as everyone but Ward thought it would
But let’s not confuse the one time it would have helped with the other multitude of situations where it wouldn’t
We even had some folks here saying in hindsight that they should have taken a timeout after they tied it up. Who would do that?
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