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Originally Posted by Textcritic
I have been saying for more than a year now that Smith should be starting only 55–60 games, but by the same token the distribution is not going to be evenly staggered over the full season.
I think the place where the Flames will see more starts from Rittich is on the road in December, January, and February. There are nine road games in February, and two back-to-backs in each of December and January. The Flames play only five road games in November, no back-to-backs, and maybe only three of those games against bottom-end teams.
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I just don't want them to fall into the Kipprusoff trap. In his prime, the Flames would play an LA-ANA back-to-back. LA sucked so they'd play Kipper first ensuring the win and then play the backup against ANA and hope for the best since they already got the 2 point.
But then LA would win and the coach (Darryl) would go oh #### and have to play Kipper again. Kipper ended up playing 75ish games!