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Originally Posted by GranteedEV
Why would that make any sense?
Forbserg is a 26yo who posted a .908 / 2.97 GAA last year in 35 games for a .467 Quality Start %
Rittich is a 26yo who posted a .904 / 2.92 GAA last year in 21 games for a .625 QS%
He only thing goalie A seems to have over goalie B is the fact that Crawford was more injured than Smith last year.
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Forsberg does have 1 thing over Rittich - he is signed already.
He is on year 2 of a 2 year, 1.5M deal. 750K cap hit, paying 800K salary.
Now while I doubt Rittich commands enough more than that to change solely for that reason, it could be a factor. If Rittich wants 2 years and management wants to keep backups on 1 year for now to reassess, there could be a couple of moves to bring in a guy who is signed and ship out the RFA rights to Rittich
Clutching at straws, but it's not beyond the realms of possibility