Also I feel like posters should stop freaking out over Smith starts. This isn't a unreasonable love fest for Smith or a long leash, etc.. Tre has two weeks before the deadline to decide whether a Rittich/Smith tandem is good enough for a long playoff run. There's a greater than zero percent chance Rittich falters in the playoffs because he has no experience. It's better to find out now if Smith can pick up the slack if that happens than in April or May. I think Tre is just looking two steps ahead.
Who knows, maybe the price on a decent goalie right now is a 1st or a top prospect like Dube and our GM has no interest in paying that if the solution is in house.
I'd expect Smith to get quite a few more looks in the next few weeks, to the horror of many posters here.
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