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Tied at 1-1 after a split in Boston and now three games left in New York and 2 in Boston we asked Evan Marinofsky of CLNS where the B's have an advantage.
The Narrative: Sam’s On/Off, Ups and Dowds, and Slowvertime
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1. Sam’s On/Off
A surprise Game 3 starter given how well Craig Anderson played in Games 1 and 2, how recently he came off the dreaded COVID list, and other stuff, Ilya Samsonov was terrific. until he wasn’t.
Samsonov stopped 40 of the 43 shots he faced, including 28 of 30 at five-on-five, and saved 1.6 goals “above expectation,” given the shots he saw. Really, he stopped everything he “should” have stopped and then some, often spectacularly, giving the Caps every chance to win Game 3.
And then this happened: