Whyme
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It was pretty similar last year. Smith was playing really badly and whenever Koskinen had a chance he was playing his very best hockey. It was clear Koskinen was a hot goalie, at least to his and Smith's standards and on the other hand it was clear Smith had a long stretch when he was leaking. Fans were certain Koskinen would get to start after his good performance, but Woodcroft kept Smith till the bitter end.He didn't misunderstand it he dodged the question about goaltending and other things he learned a couple times. He's being evasive instead of taking responsibility for some of the dumbest goalie usage I've ever seen in the playoffs in my life.
Its absolutely asinine. He'd already pulled Skinner in playoffs 3X, one of these times saved the LA series in the critical game 4 come from behind W. He refuses to start Campbell in any of the 12 games. Theres a lot of pressure to start Campbell and apparently talk about it, refuses to as he's listening from reports to advice from Dustin Schwartz to keep starting Skinner. Then in elimination game, which Campbell should surely have started he AGAIN pulls Skinner and puts Campbell in third period. The WTF at that point going off the rails.
In the playoff elimination game not only was the grave mistake to start Skinner made its even in action acknowledged by again pulling Skinner but this time too late against a better defending club. One gets the impression that the playoffs could have lasted 20something games and that there would be outright refusal to start Skinner. Despite him being better everytime he got in the cage.
Where is this report? I'm asking for a friend.
He was said to be gone at TDL. There were reports it was a done deal. Got my hopes up. ABsolutely moving yams for basically anything would have been ok with me. The cap is worth more than the player plus then we have more room to insert a prospect like Holloway.
Yamamoto is a bust in playoffs every time. Its so damned obvious. He has 3G in 34GP in playoffs and he's -16. He was -7 in this playoffs alone. In final series he was on ice for 2GF 7GA. He's being bent over bad. Get rid of him.
This seems to be the way Woodcroft works and so far it's IMO cost two missed chances to win a bit more games at the crucial moments.