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Originally Posted by GioforPM
Most of Rittich's wins were the same. But I give him credit for them, not a big "meh".
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David rittich has above average stats showing that he has been an above average goalie in his starts this year unlike smith. It is worrisome that in the Columbus game peters was very quick to yank rittich to “shake things up” but tonight he wouldn’t even when that was definitely a situation that called for it. Smiths veteran reputation is getting him more leeway than his performance deserves.
Rittich deserves as much leash as smith if not more. To me that’s what people are actually frustrated by.
And watching the two of them, one makes me confident the other does not, rittich controls rebounds and looks confident, smith is constantly fighting the puck and is lucky our D is generally good and clears rebounds.