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Originally Posted by Five-hole
Why is everyone blaming Frolik? That wasn’t exactly a laser beam. Smith had a ton of options and the one he chose was to put it on Haula’s stick.
Not saying Frolik is blameless as that was stupid but even then that should have been a freeze or a clear to the corner.
Plenty of stupidity to go around, including the inability of this coach to feel the game and realize his team is rattled.
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Smith should be taking his share of heat for that odd decision. Obviously it's a terrible play by Frolik to put him in that position, but that was an easy play to just get down and cover the puck.
Looking at it again, it seems like Smith was just trying to do too much with the puck and boot a big rebound out to clear pressure and transition the other way. Baffling decision with such little time left and Haula right there.