This team can’t afford to have a goalie like smith be even the back up. This team when they are going play a fast up tempo style where the D is very involved leading to scoring chances the other way. When smith is net he 1. Let’s in awful goals 2. Forces the team to not play so aggressively on offense because they know the liability they have in net. That’s why they look better with Rittich on the ice, because they take these chances. Starting smith forces the team to change the entire way they play, even his playing of the puck results in extremely sketchy moments.
They can’t use him anymore, he still looked awful in the games he won over that 6 game stretch. Believe he still had 3-4 awful goals conceded in those games.
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