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Originally Posted by Stanley
not sure why he doesn't just put the paddle down
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It's easy to say he should have put his paddle down watching a replay.
Breakaways are 50/50 for a goalie and even harder when someone shoots that close.
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and the 2nd one was a complete miss with his glove - he had already read the deflection and goes to catch it and completely misses.
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On the second one he was going to bat the puck away with his blocker towards the neutral zone but then the deflection happened and his momentum pulled him away and he was unable to get back in time. Sure, had he not tried to do that he might have been able to stop it but there's no guarantee it doesn't sneak through anyway.
Again, it's easy to say he should have did something different on a replay but in real-time it's not so easy to read deflections. In the end it shouldn't have mattered because the team's response should have been a lot better than it was.