Steve Valiquette

I'm going to turn this into a breakaway.

That's what he did there.

That was smart.

He just jumped up, got in his face.

Now, breakaways this year in the NHL, they scored at 31.8%.

That was up 3.5% from last year.

Breakaways went up this year.

They were going in a lot more frequently.

So goalies were stopping breakaways at 68% of the time.

And I saw him recognize what oftentimes I say to the goalies that I'm working with, guys, which is,

If you're in a team practice setting and players are just going to step to the middle and take a shot when the coach says on first drill to shoot from the wing, step out and play it like a breakaway.

Get some breakaway ice, back up with him, take away the shot.

And I think that that look.

was a good example of what came after for Dobish.

Everything he did as far as his reads, and if I was, again, working with a young goalie, that's what I would explain that play on Chernak as, that's a read.

He made the right read just about every time in this game.

And to compare him to UPL, again, I felt like UPL was making the wrong reads, but you can still be successful making the wrong reads, just not over the long haul.

And I can see Dobish, if he can play his game two the way he played game one, he's got something here.

He's got the look.

He's got the composure.