You have to dance with the one that brung ya.
Season is basically lost at this point anyway. Keeping smith in the net is as much about winning this year as it is relationship management for the rest of his contract.
Game 5 of the season you probably pull him, let him reset, come back the next game. Game 73, there's no time for that. You win with your horses or you lose with them.
Yaya, GG sucks, sure, but the Flames blew their wad getting to 3 goals. I don't think Rittich in net would've sparked anything. Roster full of injuries and holes in the lineup on the outside looking in probably doesn't see a material difference in this game in terms of a finish.
Scored 1 goal against the oilers. This isn't a very good roster.
More than the handling of Smith, I seriously question deploying Versteeg out there. He looked tentative, slow and ####ty.
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