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Leafs @ Flames - Nov. 30th, 8:30 pm - SN, Fan 590

Why can't these goalies play back to back. I know you don't want to burn Andersen out but he's playing well, wasn't really shell shocked last night, the team seems to be playing better in front of him, team maybe on a start of a roll and you don't play again till Saturday. I would have started Andersen.
 
I fell asleep after my internet tripped up a few times. Looks like... a solid losing effort on the back-end of a back-to-back on a Western road trip with the backup in net.
 
Nik the Trik said:
I don't think he looked bad on any of the goals particularly.
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Me neither. Rebound on the 2nd goal wasn't great, but the fact that it ended up on Versteeg's stick was mostly bad luck. Third goal would have required a save-of-the-year type play to stop. A really good goalie would have had the first one, but, really good goalies aren't backup goalies - and as backup goalie performances go, Enroth was more than acceptable last night.
 
Like I said in the MotM thread if we were as harsh on forwards as we are on goalies, if we measured their performance by what it might have been possible for them to do rather than allowing for all sorts of variables having influence on a play, then Marner would be the guy getting the goat horns for not being able to finish some of his chances.

I don't think you can reason with the "I don't care about the circumstances of the goal, sometimes the goalie has to make a save!" crowd but "Enroth is bad" really shouldn't be the takeaway from last night's game. They ran into a hot goalie. Enroth could have been stellar and they'd still have lost.
 
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