Yes, Max is very fortunate that after tossing a pin point 40 foot backhand pass through a tiny gap between sticks that Knies could, with an incredible amount of time and space do something that most moderately talented NHL shooters can do.
Fun story. Timmy and I were at a game a bunch of years ago, great seats behind the Leafs net, and in warm ups watch Wade fucking Belak take laps and on each lap casually roof daddy a wrister dead in the corner. Like 4-5 times in a row with nothing resembling a miss. Completely unrelated to my original point of course.
As for the 2nd goal, lovely play by Knies but that wasn't a bad pass. Max put it under the shin pad of the defender
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That's literally the only place he could have put it to get it through. A few inches further up it hits the knee, a few inches back, the skate.
Beautiful play by both.