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[QUOTE="DoctahLexus, post: 4979904, member: 6798"]
There is a lot I disagree with in his post, but to keep it relatively brief -  "Gait didn't even have enough confidence to give Spallina the ball in overtime." What on earth is wrong with going back to the matchups that have been working for us the whole game? How is that a knock on Spallina? I assure you, name any elite coach, they are not trying to go after the Zappitello match up in OT. We were exploiting the short stick matchups, they were getting results, so we kept forcing the issue there.

We were staring down the barrel of two different shots from 10 yards in OT, even before the Leo controversy. That does not mean that the guys who were not dodging at that time all suck! Mule and Hiltz took 4 shots total the whole game. Wonder what would have happened if they put a pole on Leo and Rhoa and someone like Mule or Hiltz had a short stick matchup. Hiltz would have 5 gs and he would be in here saying our midfield dodging was terrible!

I assure you I could go on. It is unwise to make statements on the dodging ability of guys who we barely needed to dodge all game. We were getting all kinds of looks against one of the better defenses in the country. Our offball guy had the biggest case of the yips I have seen in years. Even then we got to 12 gs on an elite defense/goalie.
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