During the regular season you could tell that we played a lot tighter with Smith wether or not his puck moving ability helped. Likely because he would average 1 or more muffins a game. With Rittich they had more confidence in his ability to stop the puck.
However, Smith was lights out game 1 and 2 so I don’t really think this is an issue. I think we do go to Rittich for game 4 just to shake things up because we know Smith has been shown to be fragile and regardless of how the team played in front of him he did let in 6.
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