Great game. Hiller won a close challenge to save the shutout. Not a fan of his earlier challenges. Hockey God's rewarded Byfield for the refs horrendous call. He's on a bit of a heater. Mikey can't buy an empty net goal. Jeannot was throwing a bunch of hits . The Twin Towers were playing well.
The Burroughs Breakdowns!
-Hiller is messing with us or under durres at this point. Jesse, please see if he needs help.
- Burroughs should have been player of the game. Logged almost 4 minutes & wasn't on the ice for a goal against.
- First shift he got off the ice without handing the other team a goal.
- Why are Burroughs and Fiala on the ice together ever?
- 2nd shift or so Burroughs fell in the Dzone allowing his guy to skate around wide open with the puck. Some people will argue it was an accident or he was tripped. Burroughs sure has a lot of accidents in his limited minutes.
- One of his later shifts the puck should have naturally swung to Burroughs, but the poor D stuck out there with him wasn't going to fall for that.
- Almost forgot, died laughing when Burroughs realized he was standing alone in the Dzone & started looking frantically for the guy he was supposed to be covering. Backed it up a couple times.
The problem is he's bad at defending, reading the play, keeping track of where his guy is, getting body contact. Then he's also bad at passing the puck out of danger. The King's system is supposed to make the D's life easier with forward support & Burroughs still can't pull it off. This just leads to extended zone time & more opportunities for screwups.
Now I've spent more time talking about the trauma of watching Burroughs play, than he spent playing.
On the play Foegele interrupted, Burroughs did go down to block a shot. Didn't want to be too negative about the guy.
