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Even Homer Simpson eventually relented that Lucic slowed up. And he certainly could've thrown his shoulder into him.

Mission accomplished in altering things...Smith was a) bothered he had to leave the net to go into protocol b) the Oilers basically killed the 5 minute powerplay (not sure they had more then a shot or two) and c) when McDavid was given a token hook call, and 4 on 4, they were literally sitting in their own zone killing the clock...to get Smith back in net? D) And took a time out to further delay that time.

Truly bizarre that the Oilers cared that much to waste time to have him come back in net.

And, what happens, first shot on him? It goes in and he looks like he forgot in that 15 minute protocol, how tall a net is, as his head was in the net on that goal.

The whole sequence of events definitely threw him off and hopefully it bugs him just enough in these future 3 or 4 games to throw him off again...it doesn't take much.