Mike Smith deserved the shutout. On the other hand, Columbus deserved the win. That’s just how it goes sometimes.
Seriously, Mike Smith
Smith already has one shutout as a Flame, and that’s great. It was a 43-save shutout, at that, bearing strong resemblance to this outing – Smith stopped 40 of 41 shots – except for one key difference: this time, his team didn’t score any goals.
But he was phenomenal. You harken back to Johnny Gaudreau shooting the puck wide in that four-on-one rush back in the first period. That goes in, and Smith gets his second shutout of the season.