My son has practice (game fell though), so I was sitting in the car listening to the pregame.
They asked Cassidy about the first goal by McDavid on Thursday and he said (paraphrase):
“Yeah, the puck just kind of followed him out of the zone, and then he was gone.”
This is what I was talking about with him treating rookies and vets differently. That’s not what happened at all. What happened was that Bergeron had the puck on his stick, coughed it up, and Chara got caught flat-footed out of position, and it led to a goal. I’m pretty sure that if it was two rookies involved and not 37 and 33, that answer would have been a little different.