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VANCOUVER, British Columbia – Going hard to the net? Good. Scoring a goal? Even better. Standing over the goaltender, looking down through the top of the net and talking smack afterward? Dumb.

Even dumber when all you did was score a garbage goal at the end of a 7-3 blowout loss in an important playoff game, a snowball you helped roll down the hill by taking boarding and tripping penalties earlier in the night.

But that’s what ben eager did Wednesday, sparking a scrum, taking a roughing penalty and then adding a cross-checking penalty and a 10-minute misconduct after getting out of the box in the final seconds for good measure

Ben Eager had something to say after beating Roberto Luongo with a late goal
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And the saddest part of all for the San Jose Sharks? At least Eager made an effort against the Vancouver Canucks . His coach would rather take the bad with the good he got from Eager than the little to nothing he got from others.

“We had some guys that really showed up and committed themselves to the team, and then we had some guys that weren’t sure,” Todd McLellan said.