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Originally Posted by Classic_Sniper
Time to bring up David Rittich. From mid December onwards, Chad Johnson has a sv% of .878 and Brian Elliott has an overall sv% of .891 on the season. You can't win in this league with these kinds of numbers. This is Jonas Hiller all over again. We need someone who can give this team a chance to win and maybe the answer is Rittich. His sv% is second only to Juuse Saros in the entire AHL and Saros has played real well for Nashville right now.
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The SV% is such a BS individual stat for any given individual goalie. The SV% will go up IF and WHEN the Flames makes it harder for the other team to place those shot scored against the Flames netminders. If you look at the past few games (besides the one with the Habs), the rookies there were probably not that great, but the Flames made them look great - why, because most of the shots were easy to save besides the ones late in the 3rd period. If the Flames did the same thing to the opposition and made the shots easy for their goalies, I'm 100% sure the goalies we had last year and this year will have a 91+SV% easy. The Flames don't have goalie issues, it's what's in front of the goalies that are issues. This team is a goalie killer. I bet you that if you put Price or any of the elite goalies in the Flames net all season long and he'd suck as bad as it looks right now for Johnson and Elliot.