Post-Game Talk: Panthers lose to Canadiens 3-1 in TheImpatientPanther's return

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I gotta say this, it’s a gut feel I’ve had since Bob started here. The feeling got better last year and the year before in stretches, but not constantly.

I’ve never felt confident and secure that Bob won’t let in one or two stinkers every game he plays, especially on the first 5-10 shots. Sometimes he doesn’t, but (without stats to prove anything) my sense is that mostly he does stink it up in the early going. If that’s true, the other team’s game plan is obvious, get shots on goal while crowding the net.

Usually Bob gets better as the game wears on, so the other team is best off getting a couple early, they’ll be easy ones, and then hope to pot one or two more, shooting for fourgoalski. That’s the way to beat the Panthers IMO.

ETA: I’m sure someone’s gonna tell me that Bob could do nothing to stop the first two. I disagree. He was too deep in the net on Laine’s shot. He should know that Patty ain’t passing the f***ing puck when he gets it there on PP, so Bob shoulda moved up. And on Caufield’s shot Bob was way too slow to move to make himself square. It was entirely a stoppable shot. Yeah, the team sucked in front of him but he sucked too. That’s my point.
 
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I’ve never felt confident and secure that Bob won’t let in one or two stinkers every game he plays, especially on the first 5-10 shots. Sometimes he doesn’t, but (without stats to prove anything) my sense is that mostly he does stink it up in the early going. If that’s true, the other team’s game plan is obvious, get shots on goal while crowding the net.

Not sure about this year.

But it was a big problem last year. I remember that Marc Denis from RDS pointed out a crazy stats during a game against Montreal: Bob allowed a goal on the first shot in 12 games or something like this. Yes, you read it right…FIRST shot. Crazy!
 
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Felt like a game against the Islanders, low event where nobody deserves to win. 3rd goal should not have counted, clear tripping penalty on Bennett, even though his decision to drive through between the net and the forechecker was a bad idea. First goal looked really bad, Cats were fumbling the puck and not concentrated on their outlet passes.

3rd and 4th line were total no-shows, first and second not capable of taking over the game.

We will definitely see another quality of play tomorrow.

And I agree 100% with Mogo, how sad is it that the Canadiens celebrate the win like they had slaughtered us or won the SC...
 
I was listening to on the game on the radio doing a roadtrip and the entire game sounded like there were 20 Montreal players on the ice all the time and 0 panthers players. What a stinker.
 

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