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Table 5 · 03-03-2019, 07:04 PM

My issue with Smith’s comments is that what he did was not a mistake. It may have been a mistake to go behind the net...but, hanging around and arrogantly trying to play defenseman? That was no mistake, that was just a pig-headed play by a guy who thinks he knows better.

At least Rittich looks like he is evolving, and has been playing it safe since his goofs outside of the crease. Smith doesn’t learn from his “mistakes”. He goes out and does the same thing game after game..and then brushes it off as a team error.

03-03-2019, 07:04 PM	#1546
Table 5 Franchise Player Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: NYYC Exp:	My issue with Smith’s comments is that what he did was not a mistake. It may have been a mistake to go behind the net...but, hanging around and arrogantly trying to play defenseman? That was no mistake, that was just a pig-headed play by a guy who thinks he knows better. At least Rittich looks like he is evolving, and has been playing it safe since his goofs outside of the crease. Smith doesn’t learn from his “mistakes”. He goes out and does the same thing game after game..and then brushes it off as a team error.