from Ed Graney of the Las Vegas Review-Journal,
You can change lines. You can change your goalie. You can shorten your bench.
You can hit the HIGH button on a blender.
But sloppy won’t do in a Stanley Cup playoff series this tight. It’s a major reason the Golden Knights are on the verge of elimination.
The team that took so much pride in not taking penalties is killing itself by doing just that.
By not having composure. By being frustrated and undisciplined. By being let down by team leaders.
The Knights fell to Dallas 3-2 on Wednesday night before a sold-out American Airlines Center.
The Stars now lead the best-of-seven 3-2. It means a win-or-go-home scenario faces the Knights on Friday evening at T-Mobile Arena for Game 6. It means the defending Stanley Cup champion is 60 minutes from being bounced by its skates in the first round.
Game highlights are below.
The difference is Oettinger. I saw him make a couple of saves when there was havoc on his blue and just blithely tosses the puck away after the whistle like he was mildly amused by the urgency of VGK's shooters. I know it's a bit borderline Unsportsmanlike Conduct tossing the puck away instead of handing it over to the linesman for the ensuing faceoff, but that confidence (call it arrogance or swagger) means a lot to his team. They are 100% dialed in to his game.
I was witnessing was a superstar goalie in net for the Stars.
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