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Originally Posted by Textcritic
Yeah, to me that still looks like he has been fine on the road, and is struggling at the Saddledome.
The difficulty in evaluating the Chicago game is that while the Flames dropped the ball defensively it is also impossible to see that Rittich was in a position to win last Saturday night. There has been a pretty well-worn pattern of poor performances on home ice that was not corrected against Chicago.
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Certainly can't argue with the home results of late. They stink.
Couple of things I noticed when drilling down on both goaltenders since January 1st.
1 - they have identical low danger save percentage five on five ... .981. Both have been equal when it comes to their "stinker" rate.
2 - Rittich has been facing on average one additional high danger chance than Talbot per 60 minutes of work five on five. 8.5 per game to 7.5 per game.
That's starting to dig into what I'm seeing ... the team has played better for Talbot, and Rittich has seen a slip in stopping the tough ones, not the easy.