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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
Assuming Markstron is 100% healthy I don't understand starting Rittich today instead of Saturday. They play the Jets three times in four nights a day after wrapping up this series Saturday night. Unless the plan is for Rittich to play 2/3 against the Jets this seems like an odd goaltending deployment strategy.
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Why would you assume that Rittich would play 2/3 v. Winnipeg based on this? It looks abundantly obvious that the plan is to start both goalies twice in the next four games, and I think a lot of this has to do with what is coming up in February. There are 15 games in 27 days next month, and Rittich will need to play a few times. I see this as getting him going in anticipation of what lies ahead. It would have happened sooner, except that the Flames have played only five games in two weeks, only one on the road and none on back-to-back nights.