Don't let your eyes fool you. Holtby is a real showman out there. He plays aggressively and makes exaggerated movements to make routine saves look like big ones. He hardly had any hard stops to make out there last night.
from my count, we had 19 shots within the home plate area (thats just six less than all of Washington's shots, , many of them rebounds and passes to get the goalie moving side to side. Holtby was very strong positionally, credit where it's do. He robbed MacArthur early on, made another big stop on him shortly after, and had a couple strong chances against from Ryan and Turris.
Showboat or not, Holtby played extremely well and without him playing the way he did there's probably a different result to that game. We created enough chances to score, sometimes you just don't get the bounces.
In fact, looking at the shot charts, we had about 10 shots from the blueline, 1 shot from the halfwall, and the rest were from within the dots, or pretty close to it. A few were from tight angles in deep, but there were still about 20-25 shots from good shoting positions.
