Goal Assessment: Game 43 - Pens 6 Canadiens 4

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+/- Assessment

1st Goal For (Sutter): + for

• Letang – sets up play in defensive zone, passes up to Niskanen
• Niskanen – one-time passes the puck to Sutter skating up the middle
• Sutter – enters the zone and backs Subban off before just beating Budaj with a wrist shot

2nd Goal For (Morrow): + for

• Murray – backchecks and pokes the puck to Despres
• Despres – moves the puck over to Adams to head into the offensive zone
• Adams – skates the puck into the offensive zone and passes it to Dupuis
• Dupuis – draws 3 Canadiens and slides the puck into open space where it ends up on Morrow’s stick
• Morrow – beats Budaj with a quick wrist shot

3rd Goal For (Iginla): + for

• Letang – brings puck into the zone and throws it back to Bennett at the point, eventually passes the puck down to Kunitz on the goal line as well, then drives to the crease to create a passing lane
• Bennett – raced to the point to keep the puck in and passes over to Kennedy
• Kennedy – drew a defensemen over and passed the puck to Letang
• Kunitz – waits and passes the puck across the crease to Iginla
• Iginla – settles down the rolling puck and beats Budaj

4th Goal For (Morrow): + for

• Niskanen – throws a long stretch pass off the boards to Bennett entering the zone
• Bennett – beats his man at the blue line and takes the puck in on a 2 on 1, passes to Morrow
• Morrow – slides the puck in past Price

1st Goal Against (Gionta): - for

• Dupuis – released on coverage on Eller when no other defenseman was in position to take him
• Letang – didn’t get Gionta tied up quickly enough

5th Goal For (Sutter): + for

• Letang – brings the puck out from the defensive zone and passes to Morrow
• Morrow – skates down the left wing and fires a wrist shot that Price can’t handle
• Sutter – skates to the crease and taps in the rebound

2nd Goal Against (Galchenyuk): - for

• Sutter – loses his guy at the offensive blue line when he tries to stop the puck and misses
• Despres – shows no awareness that there is an odd-man against him and misses on a poke check to throw him completely out of position

3rd Goal Against (Dumont): - for

• Glass – loses Desharnais in the corner and misses the puck
• Kennedy – lets Dumont skate right past him without any thought to following him
• Cooke – lazily glides to Dumont and thus doesn’t get there in time
• Orpik – is slow to leave the crease to try and block Dumont’s shot, ends up having the puck go off of his stick and in

6th Goal For (Murray): + for

• Iginla – wins faceoff back to Murray
• Murray – shoots the puck and has it deflect off of Plekanec and in past Price

4th Goal Against (Markov): - for

• Kennedy – drifts off of Markov and misses a pass interception attempt

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