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Originally Posted by 868904
This whole goaltending debacle stems from this management team betting on Gillies and Parsons.
They thought one of them would be ready to be the no. 1 now. They bet wrong. They never had faith in Rittich. They always saw him as the back up. They feel Rittich will just fail when they give him more starts.
They had too much faith in Gillies and therefore went with band-aid solutions like Elliot and Smith.
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No one ever thought Gillies or Parsons would a NHL starter in 2018.
Smith was ideal, as we had goalies coming up through the system that should start challenging - but Smith was brought in to be our NHL starter until something like that pushed him out.