You know you're having a bad day 'between the pipes' when...??
"On Wednesday evening in Philadelphia, the Flyers were wrapping up an all-important home stand against the second-place Montreal Canadiens, and hoping to score two points to bolster their desperate late-season playoff push. With 4:17 remaining in the second period, Simon Gagne banged home a carom off the end boards to give the Flyers a 2-1 lead, and there was much rejoicing.
Courtesy Washington Post
However, the lead was not to last. Less than a minute later, the Habs tied the game. Not long after that (still less than a minute after the Flyers’ opened the lead, in fact), the Habs would go on to take the lead. Quick lead changes have hardly been a rarity in Flyers hockey over the last two years, and Bryzgalov has taken no small amount of blame for that, having become a regular goat for Flyers’ fans, being blamed for soft goals and failing to come up big when the team needed it.
However, this goal provided a new wrinkle on that all-too-familiar story: this goal was, without any doubt whatsoever, soft [hey...I feel sorry for him, but at his pay...OMG he ducked!.
Being 'puck-shy' is a sure sign of demise for goaltenders. For me, I've had many of shots (from 'snappers to slappers') off the 'ka-bong' in my over 45 yrs 'in the nets', but I never tried or thought to 'duck or flinch'].
Read More: http://flyersfaithful.com/2013/04/04/crashing-the-crease-bryzgalovs-duck/
"To Guard and Protect (my goal is to deny yours),…for only God saves more than Goaltenders". CBJ
"On Wednesday evening in Philadelphia, the Flyers were wrapping up an all-important home stand against the second-place Montreal Canadiens, and hoping to score two points to bolster their desperate late-season playoff push. With 4:17 remaining in the second period, Simon Gagne banged home a carom off the end boards to give the Flyers a 2-1 lead, and there was much rejoicing.
Courtesy Washington Post
However, the lead was not to last. Less than a minute later, the Habs tied the game. Not long after that (still less than a minute after the Flyers’ opened the lead, in fact), the Habs would go on to take the lead. Quick lead changes have hardly been a rarity in Flyers hockey over the last two years, and Bryzgalov has taken no small amount of blame for that, having become a regular goat for Flyers’ fans, being blamed for soft goals and failing to come up big when the team needed it.
However, this goal provided a new wrinkle on that all-too-familiar story: this goal was, without any doubt whatsoever, soft [hey...I feel sorry for him, but at his pay...OMG he ducked!.
Being 'puck-shy' is a sure sign of demise for goaltenders. For me, I've had many of shots (from 'snappers to slappers') off the 'ka-bong' in my over 45 yrs 'in the nets', but I never tried or thought to 'duck or flinch'].
Read More: http://flyersfaithful.com/2013/04/04/crashing-the-crease-bryzgalovs-duck/
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