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Originally Posted by keenan87
With other positions sure. With Smith I dont. There seems to be a undeserved love fest with Smith this entire season. He plays like trash but continues to get playing time. For what? A 37 year old goalie who will probably never play a game again after this season. Just mind boggling why they are investing so much in him.
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First off we don't know the plan tonight yet.
I'd go Rittich and I expect that, but we will see.
But bottom line backup goalies play.
Smith had 9 appearances in October ... didn't look good. The team went to a tandem in November and December (Smith 6 appearances). In January he had only four, February 2 so far.
That's starter to tandem to backup movement in deployment.
The guy has to play some games, and the Canucks are a middling team offensively, it might be Peters pick.
Either way I'm going to wait and hear before losing it