Too jazzed to sleep after last night's game so went back and watched some of the highlights of the series.
The thing that stood out to me the most was that Oettinger basically played 7 games of positionally perfect hockey. Few crazy athletic saves, no Hasek-like crazy-flop saves, no overstuffed Giguere pads - just a guy playing his position as well as it can be played.
The number of saves he made that - if he were even an inch out of position to the left or right - would have gone right by him into the net... I lost count at around 11 and wasn't past game 4 yet.
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