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Originally Posted by Mr.Coffee
Dube and Mangiapane are both great in OT (IMO). I also thought Toffoli was having an unreal game yesterday, so I actually don't take issue with the OT deployment.
My only critique is that I think to disrupt the building momentum shift after the 3-2 goal, and given how mentally fragile our team is, Sutter should have called a timeout to give some time / pause / try to push out the momentum build with the crowd a bit. Crowd gives energy, also gives you a chance to chat to the boys and potentially strategize a bit too.
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Yes, a timeout would have been good there. Coaches underuse their time out in general. It was clear Ottawa was feeling it.
It was a damned good game by the whole team right up until the net pull. I guess that's why this loss feels worse.