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Thanks I'll watch the Ceci OT goal against again... my "where was he" was in part an honest question. I haven't rewatched the highlights. I do also remember cursing the forwards for a lack of awareness in the neutral zone... it was 1AM here.
The forwards were in a decent spot to react to F3 (who was Kempe) which only further supported the tactic by Ceci standing up Byfield at centre ice. Had that play been anything different than a literally perfect tip there was no real danger. If that same play occurred 100 times I suspect only once ends up landing in that same perfect spot for Kopitar to pick it up with speed and a clear lane.
Nurse could have cheated a little further over, but without that tip it's likely going deep and around the boards where cheating reduces his chance at winning the race for the icing should it go around the net. There were a several small mistakes on there, but I don't actually think anyone was really drastically out of position for what would happen on a similar play 99% of the time, unfortunately it was that 1% occurrence which is where you need your goalie to be that last line of defense ensuring there aren't a lot of holes through him to the net. He got caught assuming the same as the rest of the players that it would be icing and was flat footed on his goal line and didn't have time to cut down Kopitar's angles.
In many ways it truly was a lucky goal, and I'm likely unfairly putting too much of it on Skinner mostly because he didn't make any major save at any point last night, but that was a moment where a more alert reaction maybe gets him that one big save the team needed to buys one more shift of McDavid that could have flipped the result.