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Originally Posted by GranteedEV
The narrative has become that Rittich fell apart after Smith's injury but I saw it differently. I saw him have one awful individual game against the Golden Knights, yes, but also a bunch of games where he played well and the team took bad penalties or allowed two-on-oh's where I would have expected Smith to falter. Rittich arguably played the best game of his career during Boston @ Calgary for instance, even though it was a loss, and also gave us an excellent game @ Nashville.
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I think there were some great games in there and some not so great games. However, I can't remember the games well enough to comment on the circumstances that produced Rittich's inconsistency.
I'll disregard the games where Rittich didn't face a significant amount of shots.
> or = to .915 => 10 starts
> or = to .900 => 11 starts
< or = to .900 => 5 starts
< or = to .800 => 2 starts
Mar 24, SJS -> .838
Mar 9, Ott -> .967
Mar 7, Buff -> .962
Feb 28, Colo -> .879
Feb 21, Vgk -> .731
Feb 19, Bos -> .938
Feb 17, Fla -> .733
Feb 15, Nsh - > .906
Feb 13, Bos -> .897
Feb 8, Njd -> .938
Jan 25, Edm -> .919
Jan 12, Fla -> .953
Dec 28, Sjs -> .938
Dec 17, Van -> .941
Dec 7, Mtl -> .946
Nov 25, Col -> .923
So I guess in 16 games in which he faced a decent number of shots, Rittich gave the team pretty decent numbers. 10/16 times he was over .915. He did have 2 disastrous games but in general was much more likely to be good.
Perhaps I'm wrong about not trusting Rittich. Thanks for the post.