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Originally Posted by Reggie Dunlop
My question is does Vladar have the mental makeup to stay focussed despite sporadic backup duty? That was Rittich's achilles heel.
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It was, but when he started his NHL career it wasn't an issue at all:
25 Nov, 2017 W — 0.923SP, 2GA
7 Dec, 2017 W — 0.946SP, 2GA
17 Dec, 2017 W — 0.941SP, 1GA
12 Jan, 2018 W —0.953SP, 2GA
25 Jan, 2018 SOL — 0.919SP, 3GA
8 Feb, 2018 W — 0.938SP, 2GA
13 Feb, 2018 L — 0.897SP, 4GA
15 Feb, 2018 W — 0.906SP, 3GA
17 Feb, 2018 L — 0.733SP, 4GA
19 Feb, 2018 OTL — 0.938SP, 2GA
21 Feb, 2018 L — 0.733SP, 7GA
28 Feb, 2018 L — 0.879SP, 4GA
7 Mar, 2018 W — 0.962SP, 1GA
9 Mar, 2018 W — 0.967SP, 1GA
24 Mar, 2018 L — 0.848SP, 5GA
Rittich was actually really good in very sporadic usage for the first part of the year, but then really faltered when he had to play consecutive starts in place of an injured Mike Smith. The script really flipped for him in his subsequent seasons, where he looked much better with lots of regular work than he did when he had weeks between starts.