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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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Using the 25-30% rule after the fact is pretty meaningless. What percentage of breakaways result in no shot or a missed shot? If you're going to use some kind of hindsight statistic, then you should at least qualify it with breakaways where the shooter gets a high end shot off and has lots of time to place their shot.
As I stated above, Vladar did have a chance to stop that 2 on 1, but it would have required a massive save where he would have had to guess perfectly what the opponents intentions were and when they were going to shoot. Definitely not an easy save, and that's the only one of the 3 where you can remotely fault him on. It was a near perfect game.