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Originally Posted by Textcritic
Any less than the Canucls showed Markstrom three years ago? I don't see what this had to do with Rittich's potential moving forward.
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At 28, this next year is a make or break year for the affable fella. I love cheering for Ritter because he’s as quirky a goalie as you’ll find, but he needs to hammer out his conditioning/health issues/mental stuff that sees his game fall apart after he hits about 30 games played.
I do think this organizationally has fatally screwed up in how they’ve handled him though. Rittich should have been the guy last season in the playoffs, and should have been the guy this season in the playoffs.
If you believe in a player, you take some lumps as you go. Instead? They cast him to the background in favour of “post-apex” goalies who let you down in the end anyways - and both were likely gone after the playoffs anyways.