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Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina
He didn't misplay the puck - he simply didn't get to it.
The right play is to go and cut it off as he tried to do. But it was a hard enough rim it got past him. And then you have to ask why McDavid beat everyone to a puck.
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Even then, so what? Offensive players win the race to the puck all the time.
What made this play unusual is that the rim around landed sat flat on the ice, the moment it got to his stick (absolute fluke), and his shot happened to hit an opening under Markstrom's arm.
To those that think he directed it there, no he did not - if his shot were that accurate, especially on a one-timer, he would have 150 goals a year.
He made a good play and got fortunate. Anyone reading more into it than that is trying to find something that isn't there.