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Originally Posted by activeStick
It's really interesting how a goalie's projection is so hard to predict. Teams do such a good job with forwards and defensemen but are seemingly stumped when it comes to goalies. You get highly rated first round picks like Trevor Kidd, who end up being pretty average compared to his peers and on the other side, you get 7th round picks like Lundqvist who end ip being consistent all star goalies year over year.
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It's easy - when a team plays like crap in front of a goalie consistently, of course the goalie's gonna get a lower save per game percentage or a not-so-great winning percentage. Playing with a good team makes you look better as well, unless if you're Kipper -that's a different story.
Thing I like about Rittich over Smith is that he's pretty consistent and you're pretty confident about him making the saves. With Smith and other butterfly goalies (Hiller comes to my mind) is that they like to go straight down on their knees and don't get back up. Rittich has more athletic abilities and he can read the plays quite well.