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Mike Smith gets beat by bad bounce

Sometimes puck luck just isn’t on your side.

by Adam Gretz
Kevin Hoffman-USA TODAY Sports

Mike Smith is usually one of the best goalies in the league when it comes to playing the puck. But every once in a while bad luck happens and, well, there is just absolutely nothing you can do about that.

That's kind of what happened to Smith in the second period on Thursday night when this innocent dump-in turned into an empty-net goal for Justin Fontaine.

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