goaltending coach is a pretty intense job, and always under heavy scrutiny. as much as i would love to see it, i doubt kipper would want to come here and be in the spotlight again. he's not even goalie coaching the finnish u20 team anymore as far as i can tell.
i agree with many other people that we should let rittich run with the ball for a while. he couldn't handle the weight of the season on him as a rookie while the whole team imploded last year, and still put up a .900+ save percentage. he still put up 60%+ quality starts last year, much higher than smith's career average for quality starts, and has given us 80% quality starts this year
give him 5 starts and see what happens. there's actually no way he could be worse than smith, the current worst goalie in the league. at worst, we wind up back here, and then we can explore trades. we might even see some teams decide that they would be willing to trade their goalies (chicago and detroit plz)
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