^ when Hartley had Brodie hurt, Gio returning from a major injury and new Hamilton, that was accurate. Add in 3 goalies. Ramo and Hiller both were in the .800s
Interestingly, Hiller never recovered, and with Ramo, before he got his knee blown out, he had worked his way up to respectable stats including that horrid start. Which meant that body of work once the team settled was actually very good.
In this case, with multiple games from 2 guys, this approach requires that you simply decide as well to ignore .925 vs .875. Did the D just fluke their way to helping only one goalie?
I mentioned, for Smith to get to respectable numbers, he would need 5 shutouts with an average of 27 saves. That is a big hole.
Right now hope is unfortunately part of the strategy with Smith. If he were to have another game or two where he let in goals like last game, he should be assigned to the A for a conditioning stint, and figure it out there, where it doesn’t hurt the team you are paying 70 million dollars.
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