Personally, I wouldn’t start Smith at home for a long time. His performance at home in the last 1.5 years has been down right abysmal at .894 through his entire time as a Flames. It’s no surprise he gets the bronx cheers whenever he’s in net. The home crowd has zero confidence in him.
Start him on the road where he’s sitting at an impressive.924. It’s night and day, like 2 completely different goaltenders. Start Smith on the road only and at this point, Big Save Dave has proven to be the better goaltender, so he should receive the bulk of the workload and get the tougher/bigger games as well IMO.
Under Rittich, the Flames might actually be the best team in the NHL in goals allowed. Smith’s weak goals have really skewed the total GA of the team.
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