Frederik Andersen robs David Pastrnak with miracle stick save
This stick save by Toronto Maple Leafs goaltender Frederik Andersen may end up being the best save of the 2018 NHL playoffs.
You have to see it to believe it.
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Leafs goaltender Frederik Andersen finds confidence in loss: ‘We showed we could play with these guys’
The Toronto Maple Leafs squeaked into the postseason as the East’s second wildcard team. But Thursday, after taking the first-seeded Capitals to the wall, goaltender Frederik Andersen drew confidence from the Leafs’ 3-2 overtime loss in Game One.
Andersen stopped 41 of 44 shots, robbing the Caps several times in regulation and the extra frame.
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Sizing up the Leafs: Goaltending
Earlier in the week we looked at how the Caps stacked up against the Leafs in terms of 5-on-5 play. Today, we’re looking at goaltending.
The Caps are going to have the advantage in goal in just about any series they play. Braden Hotlby won the Vezina last season and he should be a finalist again this season. He also has the best playoff save percentage in the history of the NHL. Translation: He’s one of the best.
Holtby’s counterpart in net will be Frederik Andersen. Andersen was drafted in the third round of the 2012 draft by the Ducks and had played his entire career for Anaheim until being traded to the Leafs last offseason. The Leafs immediately made him “the guy” in goal, as he was signed to a five-year deal and appeared in 66 games this season.
Andersen’s career high in save percentage is 91.9 percent, which he posted last season in Anaheim. Holtby has had just one season with a save percentage below 92.0, a 91.5 save percentage during the 2013-14 season.
Let’s take a deeper look at each goalie, shall we?
By Patrick Holden 6 years ago
After a Marvelous Comeback Season With the Ducks, Bruce Boudreau Says the Capitals are ‘Ready to Have Their Turn’
Photo: Justin K. Aller
Bruce Boudreau began the 2011-12 season with his team as a favorite to win the Stanley Cup. In his last two seasons, he followed up a Presidents’ Trophy with an Eastern Conference regular-season title. Now, he had seven straight wins to start the year. A little over a month later, Boudreau, the fastest coach in NHL history to 200 wins, was gone. The man who resurrected hockey in Washington was replaced by two coaches who slowly bled the greatness out of the Capitals.
Just under four years later, Boudreau has found himself in a similar spot. Now the coach of the Anaheim Ducks, he had led his team to within one game of the Stanley Cup Finals the year before. But the start of the 2015-16 season was a catastrophe. His team scored 10 goals in the entire month of October. They finished the month with a single victory. Boudreau didn’t have any answers.
“I don’t know,” he said after his team threw away another game on October 27. “I’m sort of at a loss right now.”
By Chris Gordon 7 years ago
