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Sheldon Keefe Post Game, Oilers 6 vs. Leafs 4: “I just didn’t want to let Freddy [Andersen] play behind that”

On the decision to pull Frederik Andersen at 3-0:

You only have about five seconds to make that decision. Just through experience more than anything in that scenario is kind of why I made it very quickly. Before I did, I just didn’t want to let Freddy play behind that. That is not fair to him. To that point, it felt like he had already had a full game’s worth of work. We made a change. Sometimes when you make that change, it gets the team’s attention. Obviously, we didn’t get their attention in the first intermission like we would’ve liked to or thought that we would have.