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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
They have to bring in a new backup before the deadline. They have to. You can never assume your starting goaltender will remain healthy for the rest of the season and be able to start in the playoffs. If Rittich was to suffer a long term injury after in March it's basically season over.
Now is the time to play Gillies as the backup. Before the deadline as the team needs to know sooner rather than later if he's even an option. There's absolutely nothing to lose at this point and chances are he's probably going to be better than Smith. In 11 games last season he had a 2.88 GAA and 0.896 SV%. That's already an improvement on Smith.
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Do any of the goalies on that list change that if Rittich goes down the season is done? How good of goalie do we need. On that list I don’t see any getting this team to the conference finals.
There is a lot of Smith clones in Miller and Schieder where you are hoping guys recover. Or very mediocre goalies. Mediocre backup goaltending I think is valuable to win the division but in the playoffs we need BSD to be competitive.