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Originally Posted by dammage79
A month without Mike Smith tells you exactly who Gaudreau's having a fantastic season as well, it's really close.
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Rittich went 3-4-1 in that month. Some of those losses (@Colorado, @Boston) were games the Flames would have lost with Smith in net, because the Flames were nothing short of awful in them. For reference even Smith went 3-5-2 in December. Rittich was terrible in the Vegas game, which is causing revisionist history. And even then, was Rittich worse in that Vegas game than Smith was in the Tampa Game, Islanders game or the Sharks game? Heck, we don't even come out of the Boston home game with a point if Rittich hadn't stood on his head.
Beyond that, Gillies not being an NHL-caliber goalie 3rd stringer is not unique to the Flames, and even then Gillies won us a couple games.