Kelowna Knights vs Montreal Militia

Knights backup goalie Max Smith-Frey had a great night helping them outscore the Militia 4 to 1!
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Max Smith-Frey Interview:
You've been called KEL forever backup, how are you feeling after tonight?
“People can say whatever they want; it’s not going to hurt my feelings. I can only control what I can control, and that’s myself and the attitude that I bring every single day to the rink. I’m just going to use this as a tool to push myself to getting back out there.”

The game was right after your birthday. How did you celebrate?
Nothing special. My wife Olga cooked a tasty cake, we had a dinner at home and drank some tea.

Can you give advice to younger goalies? How do you gather energy before a game?
There is no ultimate answer to this question. Goalies are individualist people. Each goalie makes what’s good to him. If something helps a goalie, it’s not given that it would help another one. I think that the most important things to me is keeping on working hard on myself.

Militia power play problems:
The power play, what’d most see tonight from it and what adjustments are Militia fans hoping to come out of this game with? Well, they obviously lost the game on specialty teams, both the power play and penalty kill. Regarding the power play the Militia had too many unforced errors. They won enough pucks when the Kights did pressure them. The Knights did a good job not letting the MIlitia set up and you have to win those pucks. Once the Militia got set up they didn’t do – in my opinion – a good enough job of finding a way of getting pucks to the net.