Tuesday, March 5, 2013

Malkin Returns at Full Strength, Pens - Lightning Goal Assessment

This will be a little out of order because I was out of town this past weekend.  Here is the goal assessment for the Tampa Bay game.  I will post the Montreal game on Tuesday (Game Center Live doesn't allow you to watch games until 48 hours afterwards) and update the season spreadsheet after that.
Full thoughts are at The PensNation.





+/- Assessment:
1st Goal For (Kunitz): + for
  • Crosby – wins the puck battle in the corner, feeds Kunitz
  • Kunitz – slides into open space for a one-timer goal

1st Goal Against (Stamkos): - for
  • Vitale – doesn’t get back into the play to cover his guy, St. Louis
  • Engelland – goes to the wrong guy and never actually covers his man, Stamkos

2nd Goal Against (Pyatt): - for
  • Engelland – beat by Palat behind the net

2nd Goal For (Malkin): + for
  • Malkin – forces turnover in the neutral zone and makes a beautiful power move to get through 2 defensemen and beat Lindback

3rd Goal For (Crosby): + for
  • Letang – takes the puck behind the net and waits patiently for Sid to open up
  • Crosby – steals puck back in defensive zone, feeds it to Letang, then slides into open space for a one-timer goal

4th Goal For (Neal): + for
  • Letang – clears puck out of the zone to Malkin
  • Malkin – enters the zone with the puck and passes it off to Neal
  • Neal – scores on an empty net

3rd Goal Against (Stamkos): - for
  • Glass – is completely unaware of Stamkos sneaking past him to stand alone next to the net

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