Throwing it back works a lot of the time, too. Especially where he's got Smith and a defenceman. I don't think Frolik realized how close the Vegas player was to Smith.
There was just no communication on that play. Frolik's other choices were to eat the puck and Brodie would have helped, or to ring it to Brodie behind the net instead of going in a straight pass. At the end of the day, it was just a confluence of events.
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