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Originally Posted by Bingo
People always over react to goaltenders, especially in Calgary it seems.
Not a great start for Smith, but the Flames have been giving up too much quality too. I get that you can't just say none of them were Smith's fault every game, because he has to stop 75% of the tough ones, and this season he's stopped way less than that.
But the bigger body of work suggests he'll find it ... and if not, if this is the age cliff than yeah they'll have to make a change.
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The big thing for me is just don't let those back breaking ones in.
That one last night 8 seconds after scoring is just back breaking, and while it wasn't "weak", it was a save you need to have.
Game was pretty even to that point with Flames even driving play at times, but after that St.Louis absolutely took over for the rest of the period.