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Originally Posted by Textcritic
Over the course of the full season, yes, Rittich has been clearly the better goalie. But that has not been the case for the last month;the last six weeks; not even since the New Year. Both goalies have been pretty comparable for a while now. I tend to think that coaches set a higher value on what is happening now than they do on what occurred in the second week of November.
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I was assured just yesterday that this is in fact, not the case, but much more importantly what has happened since seasons beginning (the ONLY numbers that matter in fact apparently).
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My narrative is that David Rittich is the much better goaltender and his season long stats, the only ones that actually matter,
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It flies in the face of logic and common sense, but it was certainly made clear.
Something about brain soup IIRC.
It's mind boggling to me that people want to just completely disregard the actual comparison between the two goaltenders and how they have been playing in recent times. Why wouldn't you want to know this information? Why would we blindly want to just go to one guy over the other...just because?
If BSD has lost 6 straight heading into the playoffs while surrendering 3+ a night, meanwhile Smith had won 3 straight even with a GAA of only .895 on the season...which guy would you start?
Switch those scenarios and its obvious which way you go, but not so much the other way.
Truly bizarre to me as I could not care less who it is, as long as its one of them (preferably both) playing well at the right time of the year.