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Originally Posted by transplant99
Hows that?
They came into the season believing he was their #1. They treated him as such until he started proving otherwise.
They then handed the reins to Rittich who has handled it pretty well. He is now, clearly, the guy who will get the majority of games.
Im not sure what people want Peters/Treliving to do. Rittich just started 3 games in 4 nights on the road and then again against TB.
Rittich can't play EVERY game as you still need your backup to rest your starter at times. This was the game to do that. Rittich has never played more than 48 games in a season. There is no other option to upgrade on Smith right now, so you wait until something makes sense and hope Rittich continues to show he may be a legit #1.
If/when a deal is to be made to upgrade the crease, then you do so and if it means sending Smith down, there is no question that's what Tre will do. Though because of money its likely Smith goes the other way.
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He's received more starts than he's deserved this season. You can argue that Rittich should have got the start yesterday backing on to the Christmas break. I get that they assumed a struggling Blues team would be a good opportunity to start your struggling backup but maybe in hindsight the team goes for the two points rather than try to get Smith going. It's pretty obvious at this point Smith is isn't going to get going as he's struggled for a calendar year now. Probably time to just keep starting Rittich as much as possible and save Smith for back to backs. Smith shouldn't start again until January 2nd in Detroit with Rittich starting the 3rd against Boston and his only other January start should be January 18th against the Wings again with Rittich getting the start the next night against the Oilers.