Not nearly enough love for Smith's night on here IMO.. The guy's come back from rock bottom and was a leader in every sense of the word tonight.
I'll be the first to say that when he was shaky early in the season, it was easy to see a soft goal coming. Having said that, tonight you could just see how dialed in he was. Getting a couple of dumps on the pk; cutting off Parise and checking him into the boards.
All that and the intangibles of what looked like taking Rittich under his wing the other night and making sure that he shook off the bad period against the Jackets. Great stuff to see out of him since he'll be sharing the cage for the rest of the year.
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