Bachman didn't get hung out to dry, he lost us that game, full stop. Nobody liked seeing DiPietro get dunked, but you don't have to let your emotions try to revise history to make that point.
To be fair, it was my assertion Bachman was hung out to dry, which tantalum was responding to.
Also, looks like that game was 6-2 instead of 5-1 I mistakenly posted earlier.
I Watched This Game: Richard Bachman gets lit up in first start for tired Canucks
Memory is a funny thing. I still personally think that the statement Bachman lost us that game, but that he was was also hung out to dry are both true. We just have a poor defense without Edler... and even Sutter helps overall team defense.
On that day with Bachman we were
...[a] team still missing defenceman Alex Edler, shutdown centres Brandon Sutter and Jay Beagle, and top-six forwards Sven Baertschi and Brock Boeser.
Meaning we were low on our defensive, and offensive depth yet again and even forced to play MDZ. It was a similarly poor setup in front of a emergency backup where our lack of depth got exposed.