DENVER – It’s not often that a goalie’s stock goes up after he allows six goals in a game. Nobody is blaming Mike Smith for the 6-2 beating the Calgary Flames took at the hands of the Colorado Avalanche on Monday night, though. Smith simply wasn’t at fault for the goals and the scoreline might have been a whole lot more lopsided if he hadn’t stopped multiple breakaways and turned away 50 of the 56 shots he faced. That’s a serious workload, and even more impressive when you factor in that the Flames gave Smith the option of coming out of the game after the second period when the Flames were already down by four. “We had a few guys engaged in the game at the right level, and he was one of them.

Source: National Post April 17, 2019 00:00 UTC