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Originally Posted by direwolf
Did Mike Smith get an invite? I'm surprised he didn't go. I'm guessing he still had a nagging injury at the end of the season.
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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
He's an elder statesman; generally if you're over 30 you leave it to the younger guys who might one day play in the olympics (if that ever happens again). In this case there's just no one on offer who really fits that mould. But rolling in with two career backups seems like a pretty terrible decision unless everyone else said no.
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I think he was best to not put more stress on the body. But there were others who must have said no - Talbot, Dubnyk, Crawford, Johnson, Reimer, Elliott.