GDT: Game 43: Red Wings vs sharks 7:00 pm et 1/14/25

[KJoe88]

Gotta get at least 3 points against Tampa and Florida. Absolute necessity.

MUST.

 

[ricky0034]

What I believe happens is that when you don't trust the guy(s) behind you to do their jobs well, you try to do their jobs for them, which takes away from your ability to do your job.

If you have reasonable faith in your goalie, it's bad if someone gets by you. If you don't have that faith, it's REALLY bad, so you try extra hard to not make that happen. And like a day at the range, the ideal state is "relaxed enough to be loose without being so relaxed you have no precision." If you get sloppy at the range, you miss a lot. If you get tense, you miss a lot. You want that ideal middle state where you make it look easy. Same on the ice, I suspect.

That's my understanding anyway.

Which is not to say that the rest of the team wasn't stinky last night, because they were. I just personally think that one of the reasons was the "oh boy, Hu's in the cage" factor. Remember the Jekyll & Hyde days of Bernier and Greiss?

yeah the rest of the team obviously isn't blameless but I don't think it's just a coincidence that they were so bad in the first game Husso played since Lalonde was still around either

 

[norrisnick]

Why wouldn't it be just a coincidence? Was Husso playing the last half of the Seattle game?

 

[OldnotDeadWings]

The criticism of starting Husso is lame. He was fine in most of his December starts for a team not playing nearly as well as it has lately. He has better AHL numbers than Cossa, including a 31-save SO in his last start two weeks ago. Lyon wasn't available, Talbot can't play every game and there's a demanding road trip coming up. Ergo, Husso starts. Nothing mysterious or controversial about it.

It could be better for the team to have collectively shit the bed and be forcefully reminded how they have to play rather than lose a nail-biter .