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Originally Posted by Strange Brew
Exactly A good rule of thumb is to take absolutely everything athletes, coaches, GM's say to the media with a huge grain of salt. Maybe GG realized they would have to play Rittich a little more and this game was a possibility. And maybe it motivated him. Who knows. Who cares.
Believing that coaches don't speak the whole truth to media is not due to outright hatred of GG.
I wish we had Mr. Spock around to calculate the odds of Rittich's first start in a non back to back scenario would be the game where Smith was injured and couldn't play.
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FWIW, Wills said that Rittich was already slated to start because Smith had a bad record against the Bruins.