I just don't think Rittich is mentally strong enough either. Ward should've had Talbot in from the start. All this talk about all star game and tshirts about the stick flip seemed to get to his head. He was dreadful to start and should've been pulled in the first minute because he was done confidence wise after the 2nd goal. But you cant pull a goalie a minute in....so he should've never started.
Flames as a team are pretty fragile, so to go down early isn't great...he got a big chunk of third goal but didn't stop it, and the fourth goal was the killer,even though they got it to 4-3 for a few minutes.
I think the team in front of them sees when he's going to have one of those games, or within the game when he loses that confidence, and is then forced to play a different defensive game, which also doesn't help as they are also trying to dig themselves out of the hole he got them in.
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