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Originally Posted by ---Hatrick---
I think Smith’s numbers took a hit after he tried to come back after his injury. He was pretty bad post injury, and he mentioned that he tried to comeback a bit early and drag the team into the playoffs. Clearly he wasn’t ready to come back
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Easy to put up that story after the fact
I actually find that excuse potentially suspect, and acknowledge we will never know.
The Flames were, yes, that bad late last year that any goalie on earth would appear crappy statistically, even prime Hasek. It is easy to say he wasn’t ready, in order to justify bad numbers that were not even necessarily his fault.
He didn’t look ready tonight but it’s a preseason game. Nothing to see here.
Although I was curious about why he was stretching out his groin between plays in the first. The old Flames goalie Kiprusoff, for those that remember him, was known for hours of stretching on game days.
Dube looked good again but needs to clean up the penalties
Brodano - good to see. I don’t miss Gully
Bennett as others mentioned was not noticeable.