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On that first goal, I have never seen Dahlin do anything like it.

He's one of the 2 d-men going back, he appears to be aware of the situation. He leaves his side of the ice, seemingly KNOWINGLY leaves his man free to skate right in front of the net, leaving him wide open while having zero chance of getting to the puck near the blue line.

Again, never seen him do anything like that and it was a total 100% lack of awareness on the ice. Its worse than that, its not a lack of awareness, he was trailing the play and saw his guy, and he also saw there was no one else back in his end.

Maybe MAYBE him and Byram were trying to switch sides, but you don't switch sides while leaving someone uncovered.

It might be the most puzzling goal allowed I have seen this year.

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1 minute ago, mjd1001 said:

On that first goal, I have never seen Dahlin do anything like it.

He's one of the 2 d-men going back, he appears to be aware of the situation. He leaves his side of the ice, seemingly KNOWINGLY leaves his man free to skate right in front of the net, leaving him wide open while having zero chance of getting to the puck near the blue line.

Again, never seen him do anything like that and it was a total 100% lack of awareness on the ice. Its worse than that, its not a lack of awareness, he was trailing the play and saw his guy, and he also saw there was no one else back in his end.

It might be the most puzzling goal allowed I have seen this year.

I think you are describing either not caring or just giving up. 

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On the 2nd goal I watched the replay from both angles.

Dahlin and Byram look like they are playing keystone kops out there.

They have no sense of where each other are. Its like they are playing with each other for the very first time without a practice.

Not quite as bad as the first goal, but not far behind.  I cannot explain their positioning or play at all on either goal.

On both goals, probably the most confused I have seen 2 Sabres D-men play all year, same two guys.

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Just now, mjd1001 said:

On the 2nd goal I watched the replay from both angles.

Dahlin and Byram look like they are playing keystone kops out there.

They have no sense of where each other are. Its like they are playing with each other for the very first time without a practice.

Not quite as bad as the first goal, but not far behind.  I cannot explain their positioning or play at all on either goal.

But....Marty Wilford is a defensive genius right?!?!  It's a good thing that Pegula and GMKA wanted him back on the coaching staff this season.

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3 minutes ago, mjd1001 said:

On that first goal, I have never seen Dahlin do anything like it.

He's one of the 2 d-men going back, he appears to be aware of the situation. He leaves his side of the ice, seemingly KNOWINGLY leaves his man free to skate right in front of the net, leaving him wide open while having zero chance of getting to the puck near the blue line.

Again, never seen him do anything like that and it was a total 100% lack of awareness on the ice. Its worse than that, its not a lack of awareness, he was trailing the play and saw his guy, and he also saw there was no one else back in his end.

Maybe MAYBE him and Byram were trying to switch sides, but you don't switch sides while leaving someone uncovered.

It might be the most puzzling goal allowed I have seen this year.

I’ll have to watch it again, but I felt like he tried to take away the play of the odd man rush by peeling off. It almost worked.  
 

The trailer was the one who scored, and that was JJP’s man.  He didn’t even try. He appeared to be in a glide and did not play the stick or the body.  It was infuriating. 

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