Beyond the gif potential, there is the fact that he has other quirks. I know Patrick Roy never skated over the lines on the ice, he would step over them.
Rittich, I’m sure some of the folks here have seen, likes to take a puck off the mask before starting. He got dinged in the mask once before a 36 save shutout in Stockton, then the next game didn’t get dinged and let in 5.
https://www.nhl.com/news/nhl-goalies...ns/c-294649806
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Each time Rittich is scheduled to start, Sigalet meets him near center ice at the end of the pregame skate and does his best to put two shots off his mask.
"[He] just crouches down and puts his head down and I flip them straight up at his cage pretty hard. As soon as I get the second one, he gives me a high-five and skates off the ice," Sigalet said. "It usually takes me about six shots to get him twice, depending how accurate I am that day."
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