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BUFFALO, N.Y. -- For all the room he had to shoot, Alex Tuch might've felt like he'd just waltzed up to Western New York's nearest harbor and taken aim at the entirety of Lake Erie.

OK, so that's not fair.

It was actually more akin to Lake Superior ... if it were emptied into the Atlantic Ocean:

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Sorry not sorry, as the cool kids say.

Casey DeSmith, one of the NHL's smallest goaltenders and yet seemingly always set on making himself that much smaller, just kept shrinking and shrinking with every stride Tuch took on the evening's decisive shootout attempt.