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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
"It's like having a 7th defenceman on the ice!"
Yeah, woohoo. Like having your literal 7th/popcorn eating defenceman on the ice and no goalie when he plays the puck. How thrilling. So valuable.
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I won't rain on Smith. Old goalies always hang on too late. Remember when we picked up that Anahiem goalie Hiller AFTER he was washed up. They delude themselves a bit by having a strong stretch sometime during the regular season.
We are lucky, in retrospect, Kipper himself knew very early when his A game was fading and called it a career. Most goalies string it out too long. Clearly Ludquist did the same in NY as just another recent example.
Koskinen will never win anything. Good goalies don't throw themselves right out of the net off to one side...ever and he did it a couple of times.