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Originally Posted by GioforPM
I feel like those images prove he was too late to do anything and he needed to ease up. Pic one he's already lost the race. He probably should have been diving full length to deflect it, if anything. You can see he knows he's been beaten and he's loading up anyway.
You have dirty players like Bieksa and Barnaby, who know what's happening there.
Here's a fraction before that pic.
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If he dove he almost certainly would have knocked the net off, which would be a delay of game penalty and the Jets are down 5-3 even if the puck did not go in the net. Whether he knows he was beaten is a different point, and whether he should have eased up is a different point, but the only hockey play he realistically had to prevent a goal was a body check.