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Originally Posted by Winsor_Pilates
People need to let up on Smith. He was great in his last 6 games and probably got injured before the weak one tonight.
Even if he's not injured, I can't understand "fans" cheering for his failure just so they can say I told you so on CP.
Top of the West, great, exciting hockey and some people just have to have a whipping boy.
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Good lord. No. He’s not a ‘whipping boy’ he just sucks. It’s painfully clear at this point that we’ve gotten to the top *despite* Mike Smith. He VERY clearly should not be considered the starting goalie at this point. He should star, at most, 1/3 of the games and pray that he finds consistency doing so. David Rittich absolutely and unequivocally should be considered the starter going forward, and that was painfully clear weeks ago despite Smiths cute 6 game run of decent play. It has nothing to do with ‘I told you so’, it’s just obvious.
To be honest I see this with fan bases in all sports, particularly on message boards. Mike Smith isn’t even the most prominent one with over the top defenders here, I’d give that to Sam Bennett. But being a hard core Ravens fan I have watched insanely out of touch fans defend Joe Flacco to absolutely no end. This current defense of a terrible Mike Smith very much reminds me of that. Thankfully as a ravens fan I am no longer going to have to tell people how bad Joe Flacco is given that Lamar Jackson is now our official starter. I’m looking forward to that with Mike Smith here. He sucks. Move on.