CBJ!!

Let's go Jackets!!!! I literally can't believe that just happened! It's on like Donkey Kong!

 

One of the real problems here is that the Pens Achilles heel has been exposed and put on tape for the last two months of the season. You get bodies in front of Fleury and his game drops dramatically. They lack the big bodies to push these guys from in front of the net and so you see Columbus exploiting it. He also doesn't help his case with that bone-head move that he makes one every couple of games like deciding to play a puck with less than 30 seconds left in the game and two team mates within reach of it.

 

No it is still a vital part of the game although they have regulated it more so that there is less contact between an opposing teams player and the goalie. Used to be if you set up in front of the goalie you better be ready to take a beating because the goalie could whack away at your legs and midsection, it was the price you paid for prime real estate. Now goalies have less options and you need your defense men to clear them out so the goalie can see the puck. Last two minutes of last nights game prime example, Columbus pulls their goalie and get the extra attacker and they tried to get three bodies around Fluery and the crease trying to get a deflection or a juicy rebound.