A friend and I had a little discussion on the game. He said we played a great effort and that we shoulda won, I disagreed. As mentioned, we had outshot them but for 2 1/2 periods all we did was take long shots the Russian goalie could clearly see, no traffic in front of the net whatsoever, we made it easy for them.
Any team can fire shots on net but a hot goalie seeing every one is gonna stop them easily.
Combined with being undisciplined and taking lots of penalties, we had a recipe to lose against a solid Russian team.
The final 10:33 of the game was great tho. We got bodies in front of the net, got some bounces and the officials let the kids play.
14 team ESPN Keeper league, weekly H2H(keep any 10, max 2 goalies) Play 2 of each forward position, 4 D and 2 G and 1 utility
G, A, +/-, PIM, GWG, FOW, Hat, SOG, Hits, PPP, SHP
W, Saves, SO's, GAA, Save %
2 pickups per week max(was at 3 but apple sauce forgot)
Forwards:Crosby, Parise, Sharp, Tarasenko, Strome, Kesler, Mikael Granland, Komarov, Roussel, Zajac, Versteeg, Smith Pelly, M Johansson
Defense: Doughty,Franson, Vatanen, Wideman
Goalies: Rinne, C.Anderson, Svedberg
IR: Tom Wilson
IR: Nichuskin