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[QUOTE="DoctahLexus, post: 5082982, member: 6798"]
Pulling the goalie there is still not some unheard of thing when that is what goes down. You expect your goalie to make more than one save in that sequence, even with most being so high percentage looks. Those low angle ones for instance Mark can sometimes eat up without issue. When Cornell pulled their goalie against us he was hung out to dry on nearly all the shots similar to Mark. They still made the change and it had an impact. Gait made a similar decision. You get a new goalie in there who is lefty instead of righty that can potentially throw off or change the approach of the shooters and maybe it leads to a change in momentum.

Gait should not be assuming that pulling Mark is going to lead to some kind of mental collapse. He should be trying to win the current game, which was not an entirely meaningless contest. Feel like this is 20/20 hindsight since Mark played poorly against Towson and slightly below average against Denver. Gait had faith his goalie could bounce back from getting pulled. And his remarks were complimentary, not disparaging.
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