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Originally Posted by Enoch Root
Yes, on the 2 on 1, the shooter had lots of time and was in relatively close. However, the pass was eliminated. I thought Vladar was very deep in his net, and lost his angle. The short side was WIDE open and was an easy target.
Against NHL goaltenders, shooters who come in all alone (breakaways) only score something like 25-30% of the time. It shouldn't be as easy as that was.
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He wasn’t deep in his net.
Modern NHL goaltending coaching now says you want to be in/around top of crease. In fact, he was at a near perfect depth… especially with the high danger play with low potential potential pass.
Where the mistake was he hedges his bet late in the play and doesn’t close off short side as the shooter gets closer. He’s either not confident in his dman’s ability to stop that pass (kind of fair with how the team is playing), over confident to stop the short side shot (which was perfect), or was reading glove side (which would be a bad read).
I kind of think it was all three. Dustin Wolf gets beat that side at the AHL level.