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Hiller Lost His ‘A’ Game
by Paul on 05/08/09 at 08:12 AM ET
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from Eric Stephens at NHL.com,
...on Thursday night, Hiller’s “A” game was nowhere to be found. Johan Franzen and Marian Hossa each scored twice—once each on stoppable shots—to punch a hole in Hiller’s mystique and Mikael Samuelsson’s early third-period goal ended his night. Jean-Sebastien Giguere, a former Conn Smythe Trophy winner, who lost the No. 1 job late in the regular season, saw his first postseason action after Hiller had his worst night of the playoffs.
“We just weren’t good enough as a team, and the goalie is part of that,” Ducks coach Randy Carlyle said....
“It was sure not my best game,” Hiller said. “The pucks just went through me, which shouldn’t happen. You can’t have your ‘A’ game every day."…
“He was playing really well for them,” Hossa said. “Tonight, we finally got him going and we found a way to score on him. After that, they made a change on the goalies. You keep putting pucks at his feet and good things will happen.”
added 8:29am, At AnaheimDucks.com, you can read some post-game quotes from both sides, stuff like this…
Francois Beauchemin: We kind of beat ourselves tonight. They played well, but at the same time we didn’t do the things we wanted to do.
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and the goalie is part of that,” Ducks coach Randy Carlyle
Ya. . .I’m not gunna complain because I’m in total favor of shattering the guys confidence - but what a stupid thing for Carlyle to say as a coach.
Babcock would never talk like that. . .
Posted by Wingsfan11 from Windsor, ON on 05/08/09 at 07:30 AM ET
That WAS a stupid thing to say.
He’s gotten them this far, they obviously liked him enough to put a Conn-Smythe winner on the bench - he doesn’t need to hear he wasn’t good enough. He realizes that just fine
Posted by Baroque from Michigan on 05/08/09 at 08:18 AM ET
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and the goalie is part of that
You know, don’t throw your goalie under the bus or anything. Did he have to say that at this point? Probably not, especially if Hiller is benched. Classy if nothing else.
Does it really matter? No, but obviously they were behind him when he was playing well, then he lays an egg one game and gets blamed.
Posted by MarkK from Maryland on 05/08/09 at 07:25 AM ET