Forgot to mention in my post that Mike Smith’s puck moving ability is extremely overrated. I get there’s people in the organization that thinks it’s highly beneficial. But at the end of the day, I haven’t seen enough tangible benefits to say that the “juice is worth the squeeze.”
Like why do we even bother collecting all these puck moving defensemen if we’re just going to rely on Smith to play the puck? If we had big, slow, plodding dmen who are turnover prone than I can understand the line of thinking more. But specifically for this team, it doesn’t make sense.
You don’t have to play the puck every single time Smitty. Let a few go once in a while. That’s their job, your job is to keep that little round disk out of your net.
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