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Originally Posted by Hack&Lube
I went back to the Columbus broadcast which had the best overhead analysis and you might be right.
I think I remembered Andersson being really passive even though he was skating in the right direction so I thought he could have made an effort to intercept the pass or sped up to skate forward at full blast to out-race the backwards facing Laine if he had tried.
Hanifin was right beside Laine but his momentum skating backwards was carrying him away from the play.
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Think I remember Andersson jumping up into the play on this one, so he was caught deep and had no chance to recover in time. A forward should’ve recognized this and covered for Rasmus.
Although, Hanifin should’ve probably recognized that Laine was in behind him, something that was happening all night. Too much puck watching tonight, not enough details. The pre-game meetings probably should’ve had the players well aware that Columbus likes to stay high and get behind the D. Not a good from anyone outside of Markstrom.