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Dvorak stood on his head but the Cougs couldn't find the net
Some nights a goalie gives you everything, and you hand it right back.
Dvorak was a wall. He turned aside chance after chance, kept the Cougs in a game that should have slipped away early, and gave the offense every opportunity to steal one. The kind of effort that makes you stand up off the couch and yell at the TV like they can hear you.
They couldn't finish.
That's the frustrating part. It wasn't a lack of chances. It wasn't a lack of effort. It was the final touch, the last shot, the one clean look that never came. The net might as well have had a lid on it. Dvorak did his job, and then some, and the guys in front of him couldn't return the favor.
You don't need to be a hockey tactician to know how that one ends. You just need to have watched enough Cougar sports to feel it in your gut.
It's a familiar tune this season. We've seen the fight, the flashes, the near-misses. Our Week 8 recap, "Coug ballers made Week 8 worth watching from the couch," had the same energy, effort worth celebrating, results worth grimacing over. This one fits right in.
The takeaways are there if you want them. The effort was real. The goaltending was elite. But moral victories don't fill the standings, and right now, that's the only stat that matters.
Dvorak deserved better. The Cougs owed him one. They couldn't deliver.
Go Cougs.
