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Originally Posted by kehatch
I don't even like Ortio. But facts are facts. Ortio sat for close to a month before getting a start. Hartley had a very low threshold to benching him again (two games spread out). The other goalies were playing like flaming bags of poor (as you say) but kept getting starts.
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Facts are facts, but you are choosing to disregard them.
My personal guess on the first few weeks of the season was that Hartley and Treliving were hoping one of Hiller or Ramo would step up. None of the three did in pre-season, and neither of those two did in those first few games. So, finally, they decided Hiller was better and demoted Ramo to eliminate the three goalie situation. That was also the point where Ortio started to slot in.
I do think Hartley wanted to add a little stability into the roster at the start of this month - god knows this team needed some - and it just turned out that Ortio sucked and Ramo's play dramatically improved. That's bad luck for Ortio, but the fact remains that you are upset over the fact that Ramo
earned his starts while Ortio was not
given them.