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Originally Posted by The Boy Wonder
Did I say that?
No obviously don’t burn out rittich.
But at this point we’d be best served by either retiring smith or sending him to Stockton and either calling up one of our ####ty ahl goalies or acquiring all but 2 other backups in the NHL. That’s statistically how ####ty smith is. He isn’t nhl calibre and we should shore that up. I agree that rittich needs rest but smith isn’t the way to ensure even a single easy win if he doesn’t play
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It is the show and the guy is a vet’s vet. Theyaren’t sending him down. Let’s be realistic. There are no good options. The market is ####. All they can do is see if he can regain form.
I agree that they can’t lose the div by pursuing this experiment. But I hve no doubt Peters and his staff have done the math on that. How much rope they can give. But they aren’t sending him to the farm for a struggling AHLer.
Obvious that is what they are doing here. No other (persuasive) explanation for why Smith started tonight.