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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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As a few others have said, I don't think it's clear that the race was lost. Subsequent pics show Scheifele's stick blade moving further way from the puck/back to the centre of the crease as he loads up.
Instead of loading up his right arm to hit, imagine if he kept it on the stick/choked up a bit and extended those arms out...I think he ends up stick blade to stick blade with Evans at the exact moment of the above photo.
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Originally Posted by Calgary4LIfe
But there is no way to stop the goal with your stick there. Schiefele would 100% end up jamming it in. He just wasn't there quick enough.
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Would've been much easier for a LHS, but he could have swept his stick across the post aiming for a stick check that keeps Evans from wrapping the puck in. If he gets puck, it's a coin flip whether he knocks it in or towards the corner.
I'm a lefty, so I have to imagine it on the other post, but I can imagine it feeling fairly natural, though likely ending in an awkward collision or taking out the net (which would run the risk of awarded goal anyways, but who knows).