Isn’t that Osgood’s MO? Allowing soft goals but making unbelievable stops. The fact of the matter is Osgood let in 3 goals. I can live with that.

I can’t live with us scoring 2 goals on 45 shots or only scoring 1 goal on 6 power play opportunities.

He was sick all week, so he could have just been gassed out by the later points in the game. Babcock said he’d be playing on one leg if necessary…

To be clear, I know he didn’t do that… only two were whack.

Especially if your goaltender allows three floaters from the blueline.

Agreed. My favorite goal ever was last year in the playoffs when he got on the rush, almost wiped out, and then flubbed the shot over Bryzgalov somehow.

I miss those.

I did notice in the third period he seemed to significantly slow down and he even shied away from contact a couple of times. Fortunately, he didn’t cost us any goals.

I will say this, wasn’t it really cool when he would join the rush out of the blue and create a scoring chance? I mean, he never finished, but I at least miss seeing him try.

Statistically, Stuart was fine, so you’ll get no disagreement from me on that point. I think it was more of an aesthetic thing in terms of the “awful” point. He just looked tired. Maybe that’s because of the ice time he logged (24:24), but it seemed like he was struggling with the play down low at times, and reverted back to his “I’m going to stand in front of the net and hope for the best” strategy. Did it work? Sure. But it’s not necessarily the way one would like to see Stuart get it done.

On the whole, I like Stuart on the blue line because he’s consistent and brings a physical yet responsible presence to the game. Maybe I’m just arguing semantics at this point, but he just looked rough to me last night. Whatever works though, I suppose.

At least he didn’t get turned inside out like Kindl did. Holy crap.

(first dog, street name)

Just getting that out there.