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Originally Posted by transplant99
YOU called it a "major" weakness, not me.
And who would you have acquired to make the goaltending "great"?
But move those goalposts to feel better about being wrong.
You want a weakness on this team?
Look at the PK.
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Try this on and see if it fits.
Between Sean Monahan and Sam Bennett there is a 60 goal scorer!
Combine Rittich and Smith's stats and the Flames are 8th in goals against!
You don't want an honest conversation here you just want to be glib about goaltending by pointing to #### like team goals against average or wins or other things that don't actually reflect on the individual goaltenders.
All of Calgary's chief playoff competitors added at the deadline, the Flames added fantenberg.
They didn't need to get a goalie to replace smith because that was likely impossible after letting the problem persist all year. They needed to add scoring, so that when mike smith lets in two absolutely awful goals, they have the horses to pull themselves out of it.
Not lose 4-2 to the Wild on Iginla's friggin retirement ceremony night, a guy who made it his career to absolutely torch the wild.
Mike Smith just put together his best 4 or 5 game streak of the season, I have no problem acknowledging that.
OUTSIDE OF THAT PERFORMANCE, he has maybe been the worst goalie in the league.
In a season where the Flames look like the Class of the west, knowing the backup is a worse goalie than Phil Sauve isn't exactly inspiring, as between now and the playoffs, the flames are still going to have to actually win games as well.
I'm going to try not to harp on it too much between now and the end of the season, but the flames blew a huge opportunity at the deadline and since then Mike Smith has decided to use a yellow highlighter to remind us all just how bad that decision may end up being.