Comments on: Is the hockey world wrong about Mike Smith? http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/2011/11/03/is-the-hockey-world-wrong-about-mike-smith/ ProHockeyTalk on NBCSports.com Wed, 19 Jun 2013 21:14:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: cshearing http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/2011/11/03/is-the-hockey-world-wrong-about-mike-smith/comment-page-1/#comment-19184 Thu, 03 Nov 2011 17:09:34 +0000 http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/?p=53754#comment-19184 He was considered the next big thing in Dallas when he first came up. There were grumblings of trading Turco much earlier due to his initial play. The trade to Tampa seemed to affect him negatively, so maybe this fresh start is what he needed, especially on a team with such low expectations overall. Hopefully he can keep it going.

]]> By: sunking1 http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/2011/11/03/is-the-hockey-world-wrong-about-mike-smith/comment-page-1/#comment-19179 Thu, 03 Nov 2011 15:18:40 +0000 http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/?p=53754#comment-19179 I thought Smitty was, for the most part, a OK goalie in Tampa. Where he got into trouble was whenever he roamed behind the goal and tried to stickhandle the puck. It felt like every fifth attempt he would botch a pass attempt and lay the puck on the oppositions stick with Smitty scrambling back to defend a WIDE OPEN goal. You see that a few times and the team loses confidence in you. And then he would lose confidence in himself.

Bad goals kill every team. Good goalies minimize those opportunities.

]]> By: 1943mrmojorisin1971 http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/2011/11/03/is-the-hockey-world-wrong-about-mike-smith/comment-page-1/#comment-19165 Thu, 03 Nov 2011 06:11:34 +0000 http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/?p=53754#comment-19165 3 games is a pretty lousy sample size. Give him at least half a year, then we can pass some judgements

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