Really hard to evaluate Silovs this game. Honestly not a lot he could have done except for the 5th goal. He kept his skates a lot better this game which was nice. Still, just a bunch of stuff that I don't like.
Goal #1: Hischier with a nice shot here, Silovs picks a position not right on the puck but between the puck and the shooter's body. This is a typical intermediate position where you give up being right on top of it but you have some leeway if you know he is the type to pull it into his feet before he shoots. You also don't have as far to go if he cuts to the net front. On the other hand it's a LHS on the LH with your d-man in the middle, you could choose to microadjust to the puck position and have a better chance and there's like 70% chance he will go blocker side. You can nitpick this decision but at the end of the day Silovs reacted from his feet and Hischier still put it top corner.
Goal #2: I mean, what a f*** up by Miller and Hughes. And Hughes could have skated to the open guy... Anyways, this is a perfectly acceptable rebound by modern standards, the pad did it's job and put a lot of juice on it but it went to the wrong guy. Shit happens sometimes, ironically a rebound right back towards the shooter would have worked out better for him but if you get a rebound that's hot and angled you're usually pretty happy with that.
Goal #3: Another f***up by the defence, Myers does the classic job of taking away his own goalie's eyes. Still IMO this is another example of Silovs not having all that much game experience. The shot through the legs in this circumstances happens every game and eventually you learn to read the puck coming through your own guy's legs. Silov's tracking isn't elite yet so he needs to use these tricks. However, at the end of the day the shooter picks the corner and Silovs is at the top of the blue. Not too much to do there.
Goal #4: I mean Myers basically scores this, not much to say. Bouncy bouncy.
Goal #5: I think this is the only one where I have some real issues. Silovs plays this well going in and out of the RVH. Noesen is never in a shooting positing and at a bad angle which justifies Silov's use of RVH. HOWEVER, because of that you know this is a pass and the chance that it is a cross crease to the net front guy is super high and that's exactly what happens. This isn't a revolving net front presence which is the de jour thing to do among younger guys. Hughes is basically sitting there the entire sequence.
Now one thing you don't see Silovs do is take a quick peek every so often so he knows where everyone is. So his situational awareness is low. But Noesen waiting and waiting on the goal line in a passing position is a huge neon sign telling you they're setting up a back door.
Because he's in RVH, Silovs is in a great position to make this save. Hughes and Noesen even helps him by playing the pass and tip more to the top of the crease instead of the side where Hughes is probably unstoppable. However, here is where technique comes in. It should be an easy compact butterfly to the point of the tip, THEN you extend your hip if you need to make a desperation stretch for a shot that is more to the side of the crease. What Silovs has a habit of doing is abandoning compactness right away, extending his hip to make the "desperation move" when it isn't that desperate moment quite yet. And in this case it opens his five hole and the puck goes straight through. Don't even get me started on stick discipline, anything including paddle down would have prevented this goal even with the unnecessary hip stretch. It's just these technical lack of details which he's shown throughout this regular season.
Goal #6: I mean it's laughable that Juulsen tells his partner to cover the pass AND two guys while he covers open ice with no passing or shooting lane. Goes off Brannstrom's skate to one of the two guys he was trying to cover. So again not much for SIlovs to do again. Actually he plays it perfectly, you expect a deflection from the first net guy so he butterflies at the likely point of contact but then it rolls to the second net guy. Now he does the hip stretch and almost gets it. That's how that is supposed to work. So he is improving in some ways.
Anyways it only makes sense to go back to Lanky but I wouldn't draw too many conclusions about Silovs from this game. Team has to get it's shit together, and some of our best had terrible games tonight.
