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Originally Posted by IliketoPuck
His last ten games he's gone:
10 GP
4W, 4L, 2 OTL, 0.899 SV% and a 3.16 GAA.
Edit:
I lied, those are Pekka Rinne's stats. Last year's Vezina winner.
BSD:
10 GP
7W, 2OTL, 1ND, 0.904 SV%, 2.89 GAA.
People need to chill out and put things in context. Take what we have so far this year and be thankful. Without Rittich, this team is on the bubble, or outside looking in, instead of fighting for top spot in the West and an outside shot at the President's trophy.
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Love the Rinne stats tossed out there for some perspective, haha.
I completely agree with you here. The "sky is falling" attitude towards goaltending the last little while has been extreme. Even listening to so called experts discuss the situation has been frustrating.
I'm far more supportive of the idea that we stick with Rittich, but we need to grab another option behind him in case he goes into another slump or needs some rest.
It's Smith who makes me uneasy as far as goaltending goes... Rittich got us here, he's slumping a bit but should bounce back, the question is: why can't we rely on our back-up when our starter is having a rough patch? Why haven't we been able to truly rely on Smith all season? If he's going to step it up and prove to the fans and his teammates he holds
some value, it would be now while Dave finds his game again. All goalies go through slumps, it's a good back-ups job to fill in well when they happen.
People should lay off the Rittich criticism, take a deep breath, and ask themselves why the team is losing when their young goaltender is having a bit of a bad stretch to his otherwise fairly remarkable standards so far this year. Where is our veteran back-up who was supposed to be the starter? Why can't the rest of the team step it up? Rittich is not the weakness.