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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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In fairness, those guys had impeccable pedigrees.
I disagree that the expectation was that Gillies wouldn't be in play by now. He's 24 and was drafted 6 years ago. That's when goalies should be coming into the NHL IMO. He has OK AHL numbers (I don't know NHLe numbers for goalies but my suspicion has always been that the lack of D and generally loose team play in the AHL saws off with the quality of shots in the NHL).