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Originally Posted by VANFLAMESFAN
You don't pull him after the 4-4 goal. It's a tie game and Rittich is cold and you're gonna throw the best offence at him?
You don't pull him after the 5-4 softy either. It's still a game that they could come back in. And you don't call the timeout there either. You're down 1, you need to bank it for the late surge.
This is not on GG tonight.
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Agree on not pulling Smith at 4-4 but you 100% use your timeout there. 12 seconds into the period and they were just shell shocked again.
At 5-4 it can go either way but the second Smith makes that long look at the bench I think you have to pull him - could tell he was fragile mentally at that point. You need to trust your backup to be able to come in and hold down the Fort too.