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Originally Posted by Enoch Root
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.
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That's not the point I'm getting at. When Smith lets in a bad goal he deserves criticism. But the same type of goal on either goalie is either a bad goal or not. If you're going to say that Rittich had no chance on it then neither did Smith.