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Old 02-10-2019, 01:21 PM   #9419
Erick Estrada
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Originally Posted by icecube View Post
All goalies have their ups and downs over a season. Did you expect Rittich to be vezina calibre all year when he's finally emerging? He's going to need a bit more time and patience to see what we have.

Brian Elliott has always been inconsistent and frustrating. Mike Smith is old, and probably still banged up since last year.It's like you guys expect a goalie coach to mold the Venus Di Milo out of a pile of dog turds. That's pretty much what he's been given since he's been hired.
To me that's still an excuse as he's either part of the problem or part of the solution and regardless of the goaltenders he's had to work with he's not shown by any measure that he's part of the solution. He's the last coach standing going back two head coaches yet the same issue is rearing it's ugly head that plagued the last two coaches. Is it coincidence? I don't think so.
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