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Originally Posted by jayswin
Treliving now has the difficult task of both replacing him and putting him somewhere, but it has to be done.
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It is a difficult task, and won't get done overnight. At minimum, I wouldn't expect Smith to go anywhere before Rittich returns. Gillies has been stone awful in the A this season, and if you gave him the net right now, he could actually be worse than Smith. I think some CPers forget that such a thing is even possible, but it is. Remember Philippe Sauve? His career average was as bad as Smith has been this year – 0.888 SV%, 3.45 GAA.
Meanwhile – I find it really amusing that a lot of posters were writing this game off in the GDT. One even called it a ‘scheduled loss’. But when the game turns out exactly as they predicted, the board flips its collective wig.
Put a decent goalie in the Flames' net tonight, probably you don't give up those two stinkers – but that's still four goals against, and by no means a guaranteed win. The whole roster has to take some heat for that – and the Bruins have to get some credit. They're a good team.
Smith is the Flames' worst problem right now, but not the only one.