I am saying it was a saveable tip shot, I am not saying it was a soft goal, or even a weak goal, saveable.
Rask was positioning himself to deflect the shot wide and instead it was deflected down and went five-hole.
What Binnington displayed in the 1st period is exactly what Rask lacks. Rask had the better playoffs and the better Final, but when it came down to it at the very end, Binngton made numerous saves that he shouldn't have made while Rask let in 2 goals on 4 shots, even if they weren't egregious goals to give up. Binnington elevated his game, and Rask regressed.
f***ing Binnington didn't do shit. I almost want to just leave the board and delete my account because I know that that's going to be the narrative because he had some flashy looking saves. But FFS it was all us shooting right into him. Marchand had the whole net, hits his arm. Johansson has the whole five-hole open, lifts into the abdomen. Krejci can't lift it over the pads. He got lucky. Early on he was the same bad rebound machine he was all series. The only reason it took 58 1/2 minutes to break the shutout was because after Marchand gifted them the backbreaking second goal, they just went into a defensive shell and had a permanent box around the slot keeping us from pouncing on any of his rebounds.It is unfair, but the timing matters.
One can argue that he outplayed Binnington this series and/or this playoffs, but when the chips were down Binnington saved his team’s ass tonight and Rask was ordinary.
Rask may have a hall of fame career when it’s all said and done, but if he doesn’t win a Cup as a starter, that’s a huge part of his legacy.
What Binnington displayed in the 1st period is exactly what Rask lacks. Rask had the better playoffs and the better Final, but when it came down to it at the very end, Binngton made numerous saves that he shouldn't have made while Rask let in 2 goals on 4 shots, even if they weren't egregious goals to give up. Binnington elevated his game, and Rask regressed.
What Binnington displayed in the 1st period is exactly what Rask lacks. Rask had the better playoffs and the better Final, but when it came down to it at the very end, Binngton made numerous saves that he shouldn't have made while Rask let in 2 goals on 4 shots, even if they weren't egregious goals to give up. Binnington elevated his game, and Rask regressed.
And the 3 games where Binnington was AWFUL?
Rask didn't have a really bad game in the series. He was very good in 5 games, and ok in 2. If his teammates played as well as he did this series was over in 5, they did not
If Rask wasn't superhuman, this team would have been playing Golf in April, and nursing their offseason surgeries
Binnington is a turd. He's Cam Ward, he's Antii Niemi, he's just right place right time. Won't be starting in the league in 3 years.
Exactly. Had he been lucky, he could have stopped that. As it was, he played it the way he was supposed to. At the other end, Marchand should have scored on his one timer, but Binnington stumbled into the save by the edge of the fabric in his jersey. Never discount puck luck as a huge factor when the skill levels are even.Saveable by luck rather than skill, in the 0.1 seconds after the deflection there's nothing left to do. He would have had to precisely anticipate the five-hole deflection before it even took place.
I feel bad for him. He had a great run and then got outplayed by Binnington the *****ebag.
I've said it multiple times, he's had big games in elimination scenarios, a few of them this playoffs, but he has NEVER closed it out, and almost always collapses epically at the end of the day.Like game 6?
It's no different than the Bruins annually beating the Leafs in game 7 in Boston; it's mental, it's self-fulfilling prophecy, it's bounces.