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Originally Posted by The Boy Wonder
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.
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Deserves has nothing to do with it. Peters is doing what gets results. Rittich has a poor record over the last few games, and Peters definitely has a feel for the roster. So he made a move against Columbus. How did it turn out, BTW?
ETA: this is kinda funny stuff coming from a guy who spent most of last year saying Bennett just needed more time to work things out, preferably in place of Ferland on the top line.