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Originally Posted by Inferno
I think it's more than people are just tired of the constant complaining warranted or not rather than think he's been good this season. Everyone knows he's had a bad season but as someone who is unbiased to either goalie it gets tiring after a while hearing people say a goal he let in was bad but then Rittich lets in a similar goal and they say he had no chance.
A bad goal is a bad goal whether it's on Smith, Rittich, Price, Fleury, .etc. Rittich has played well enough where when he lets in a bad goal people shouldn't pile on him while Smith deserves it but they should atleast acknowledge it was bad. And if they don't think it was then they shouldn't think it was bad on Smith either no matter how bad they think he's been this season.
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First of all, yes, the piling on has been over the top. And yes, every goalie let's in bad goals.
But there are bad goals - loses his angle, doesn't get set, just doesn't read the puck off the stick - and then there are BAD goals - 50 ft wrist shot goes right through the goalie. And it is the rate at which those really egregious ones occur that matters. And unfortunately, the rate at which Smith has been letting in the really egregious ones has been a problem.
And that is going to cause people to react to
every soft goal.