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Old 07-03-2019, 02:42 PM   #146
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Originally Posted by FiveSeven View Post
Surprisingly nobody touched on the whole Smith playing the puck too much stuff. Sometimes when he wasnt doing the best job with handling the puck I just wanted to scream. Just stay in the net for once!! It did help end the forecheck but also seemed to limit breakout speed because defenders are usually just being still waiting for the pass. Which led to comments of the team playing faster under rittich. Guess we will see but I'm definitely much more optimistic about goaltending this season.
The thing that drove me nuts is there is a time and place for going out of the way to play the puck. It seemed a lot of the time Smith was just doing it to show off. "Hey, look what I can do!"

It would throw the defense off and they would have to waste time to re-set the play anyway. It wasn't helping.
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