5 game, 8 day road trip
Rittich is going to start 2 and Markstrom 3 (unless injuries dictate otherwise)
So why have Rittich go in game 1? If they lose game 1, it puts pressure on the remaining games of the trip, and they are playing catch up.
Markstrom playing games 1, 3 and 5 makes way more sense.
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