I too was under the impression Price wasn't exactly great last PO. But having been drunk for most of it
, I can't talk much about it.
So I decided to watch it all again. Here's the result.
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Game 1 :
- goal 1 : 0-0
Karlsson pass the puck inside the blue line, skates through the dmen, tip the puck behind Price. You can ask for miracle, but blame the D.
- goal 2 : leading 2-1
Direct shot by Silfverberg between the legs from just just inside the blue line. Habs lose their 2-1 lead early in the 3rd despite dominating 41-19 on shot on goals. That one hurts!
- goal 3 : tied 2-2
Absolute confusion in the D-zone with almost every player out of position. Shot comes from the blue line with 4 players hiding Price and enters top net.
- goal 4 : trailing 3-2
Shot from the blue line. Sort of a big rebound given by Price, but he's then pushed inside his own net by Subban and the puck enters after hitting Latendresse.
Only 1 really bad goal given by Price and far from a bad performance. But that goal came at a very bad moment as the Habs were dominating the game.
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GAME 2 - Habs win. Blame Price?
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GAME 3
goal 1 : 0-0
Power play goal on a great play. Can't really blame anyone there. That happens.
goal 2 : 1-1
Pageau brakes through Habs D after a great pass. Not sure what Markov was doing there. Can't blame Price.
goal 3 : 2-1
Pageau fire's it from the FO circle with Tinordi blocking Price's view. Shot goes over the glove. Can hardly blame Price. Scrore is 3-1, Habs will not score, game is lost.
Price is not to blame here at all.
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GAME 4 - Habs lead 2-0 in the 3rd
Goal 1 :
Face off lost by Gallagher. Puck in thrown in front of the net by Neil, goes through Tinordi and deflect on Zibanejad who's passing by. Ugly goal, hard to blame anyone.
Goal 2 :
Andersson is out. The puck get's in the zone, Alfredsson circles around the net, throws the puck up front, bounces off 3 guys, nobody knows where it is. Conacher scores. One can only praise Sens intensity. 2-2, going to OT
Goal 3 :
Budaj gives the goal on a weird shot.
Can't blame Price for game 4.
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GAME 5 : Budaj's in net.
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Overall, Price left one bad critical goal in game 1. Who knows what would have happened if he stopped that one. But in the end, Price weren't bad at all during these series.
We might also have kept a distorted souvenir of Price's performances because Andersson was so great. But clearly, no one can blame Price for last series.