Quote:
Originally Posted by Strange Brew
Do you think the city in which he plays carries more weight than his recent play? I tend to think the whole home/away thing with Smith is more anomaly than anything but what do I know...
|
Well, the numbers I posted certainly qualify as Mike Smith's "recent play." His last game on the road was probably his second best game of the season. He has played only one game since then.
Of all of the highs and lows of Mike Smith this is the ONE item of consistency that goes back to his first game playing behind the Calgary Flames. For more than a year now Mike Smith has been demonstrably better on the road than he is at the Saddledome. I don't pretend to know the reason for this, but I think with how engrained this pattern is it cannot be dismissed as an anomaly.