If you saw the first game that Rinne played against the Flames in Calgary, you would've laughed if you would've said that he'd get a 7/49 deal at any point in his career. He gave up 6 goals, all on fairly easy shots, but did make a couple of close attempts that showed a bit of potential.
I'm not saying Irving is that, but you cannot tell with young goalies. Irving did make quite a few good stops tonight, and did let in a bad goal, but there was some flashes of him being at least competent as a starter. You need to see if that was just a flash or if it can be improved on further to see if he might actually be able to be relied on as a goalie for this year, next and beyond.
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