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Originally Posted by DeluxeMoustache
Making things up? Kind of funny that you say, unsubstantiated, that he has been excellent. Validating your feelings, perhaps...
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That's fair, and you are right that my choice of words in this instance was poor.
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Sometimes athletic goalies make ridiculous saves to recover from putting them self out of position.
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Which was precisely the intent of my post, although I would argue that Smith's acrobatics were not so often a result of poor positioning. I was countering, however poorly, this outlandish notion that somehow ...
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Originally Posted by Monahammer
... it's just obvious that Mike Smith was never a good goalie in the same way other goalies are good. He relied on positioning and a big frame, but has little in the way of reflexes or rebound control.
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Good on you for keeping me accountable for my own hyperbolic use of language, but let's not lose sight of the point here, which is that it is very poor form to depend on revisionist history to popularize notions about and trends in a player's present performance.