What the **** was Ellis doing there?
Playing a game on skates and reacting to someone flying around a net
Ellis did everything he could on that
So Ward or Ellis tomorrow?
What? No. He was out to lunch. You stay facing forward, hug the post, and slide to the other side in half a second, and hold that post. He got himself turned around, then was standing up, facing backwards when he should have been sliding across facing forwards. Then he tried to walk and fell.
Ellis was laughably incompetent on that play. Call it a brain lapse, whatever, but he should have been on the opposite post.
Well "Coming to America" is on Comedy Central. See you guys tomorrow.
Uh, no. There was less than a second between the two shots. It bounced right out front for a backhand the moment the skater who was already turning around the net got to it. It's hard to transition from the butterfly to a desperation save immediately behind you in less than a second.
It should never have reached the point of a desperation save- he finished the first couple of shots standing up and facing backwards- which should never have happened. He needs to be down, and ready to side across the front of the net to the opposite post.
This is how he should have faced the initial shots, not standing up and facing backwards.
Which leaves him in position to push across to the other side of the net very quickly- pushing across, for an NHL goalie, should take far less than a second.
Goalies deal with plays behind the net and wraparounds all the time. If he hadn't taken himself out of a ready position, that would have been a routine stop.
Sometimes I wonder why I sit up until 4 AM in the morning to see this.
Power kill now.
He was square to the shooter initially, the puck took a good bounce and by the time he recovered the guy was already around the net.