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Originally Posted by TheIronMaiden
I see your point, and obviously a goaltenders performance does not happen in a vacuum. The Flames were terrible, and completely fell apart, that was in no way Rittichs fault. I don't think that anyone pushing the narrative that Rittich is to blame for losing last year in February. All the same, results are that in 9 games last February he had a .873 Sv% and a 4.05 GAA. Sure lots of that was his teams fault, the Flames sucked last February. All the same, those numbers are awful.
Is it coincidental that he put of bad numbers at the same time that he was given the reigns? Who knows for sure, my assumption is that he did not step up to the challenge, ( forget where but there was an article written about the change in his personality during this period). What we do know is that if that happens again you can put a fork in the Flames championship hopes. So I return to my point ( which is purely speculation) that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
Edit found the article in question: https://theathletic.com/658758/2018/...lames-starter/ |
The way Rittich has played this year with more games as the defacto starter since that article was written than he got as the starter last year, it is clear that he is handling it better, and I cannot see why you think Rittich is going to falter just because he did last year. Thats like saying well, at this point last year mike smith played poorly so we should expect him to get even worse from here on out??