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Originally Posted by Da_Chief
Disagree. How did Ramo and Hiller earn their shot? By consistently getting to play. It was win and keep the net last year, was it the case this year with Ortio and Ramo? nope!
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Body of work, recent results, and practice.
Ortio has none of those three going for him.
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Originally Posted by Da_Chief
I'm not going to get into who he's developed and who he didn't. I'm only talking about Ortio. I was hoping for Ramo-Ortio tandem to start the season but to say Ortio got a fair shot to play is misleading. He did play well in the pre-season by the way, go check the stats and read those PGT.
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Ortio hasn't earned a "fair" shot. You don't simply get a shot just for being a prospect. Who cares what the PGT thought. If it was a good method of player analysis, Bennett would be in Kingston and Mony would be our 3rd line center. Nobody in their right mind is going to base player analysis on fellow fans emotion highs of a win or lows of a loss.
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Originally Posted by Da_Chief
I hope Ramo keeps improving and holds on to the net now but I wouldn't be surprised to see Hiller come back and be the backup and they go back to win and keep the net. That would be a piss off for Ortio.
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I hope Ortio is pissed off. Anything, really, to encourage him to be the player we thought he might be. Would it surprise you though if he just never panned out in the NHL? It happens ALL the time, even with much better goaltending prospects.