Predictable outcome, but the season wasn't lost by this game. It was by getting swept by the Hawks. The blown leads to MTL and OTT. The piss poor efforts against other bottom feeders. Markstrom sucking. Not being able to score a damn OT or shootout goal for most of the season. Your superstar declining at a historical rate. And your supposed top 3 depth down the middle turning to top 3 junk down the middle.
Obviously Ritchie in the SO was a mind boggling move. Especially when Sutter has died on the hill of riding Markstrom as long as he did by constantly saying you put the games in the hands of your stars. If that's the motto, then yeah, where the living #### is your best clutch player in Tyler Foli?
In the press conference the coaches were saying stats 'n' odds to put Ritchie in, but where was that mentality when Vladar was riding hot for a bit and the team kept going back to Markstrom. Naw, just own it Sutter. It was a gut feeling and it was the wrong one.
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