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Originally Posted by Flames Draft Watcher
I don't know why people are so obsessed about the backup. Rittich is having a great season after a terrible preseason, it's a great story. Why spend all your energy talking about how the backup is bad half the time? It's still miles ahead of some of the years I've pointed out above. If the backup is bad half the time and we still win over half those games then we're in pretty good shape as a team.
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I suspect the reason most people have an issue with Smith is that the Flames keep trotting him out as if they're trying to get him to fight through this.
Obviously that's changed a bit of late, but the fact is, he's played more games than Rittich at this point.
Rittich is a great story. And obviously he's not ready to play 70 games a season, but as you point out, when the Flames had terrible backups before, they didn't play them unless they absolutely had to.