What is Vatanen doing on that play? He closes the gap on the player entering the zone, has him on his backhand, and then retreats backwards allowing another Hurricane to come late and be left wide open.
I don't understand how an NHL player can do this constantly. That pass across never happens if Vats doesn't inexplicably retreat off a guy that is literally against the boards at the blueline on his backhand.
What the hell.
Sure, Santini got caught, but he did as good a job getting back as a player can.