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Originally Posted by Savvy27
Another way of looking at it is that Rittich now has a pattern of starting off strongly and fading as the season goes. Without bringing in someone new, there are a ton of teams that will have a goaltending advantage against the Flames in the playoffs.
It's a pickle for sure. Would be nice to see how Rittich does so they can make an informed call on him as a long-term number 1, but if he falters it is going to be a bit scary having only Smith to fall back on.
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How could we possibly know this. Rittich didn't really have a start of the season last year as he started sporadic games in a backup role nd faltered while getting more starts during Smith's injury. This year he was great when getting large strings of starts and imo only really started to show cracks when smith started weirdly getting starts ahead of him again. Hes not had a playoffs so how can we judge how he performs there?
In short its much too small of a sample size to make any of the assumptions or inferences you're speaking about. I think that Dave was robbed of some of his confidence unrightfully, and I believe he has a much better chance of performing well in the playoffs than smith. I have no doubt in my mind that smith will Elliott the piss out of us come playoff time.