Cassie Campbell-Pascall said that she heard (from Brad Pascall presumably) that the Flames weren't happy with Rittich's practice habits in particular I believe.
Interesting. You would think a guy playing his way in to a possible 1A position, and in the playoffs would have been dialed in.
Markstrom
Rittich
Domingue
Parsons
Zagidulin
Wolf
Chechelev
did I miss anyone?
The only good long term pieces there are markstrom, wolf and chechelev. The rest is just ahl talent aside from rittich who is now bound to be a salary cap casualty. I think things are still very fluid with the position personally. Wouldn't be suprised to see Domingue back up Markstrom which brings back bad memories of kiprusoff's terrible backups over the years.
The only good long term pieces there are markstrom, wolf and chechelev. The rest is just ahl talent aside from rittich who is now bound to be a salary cap casualty. I think things are still very fluid with the position personally. Wouldn't be suprised to see Domingue back up Markstrom which brings back bad memories of kiprusoff's terrible backups over the years.
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Rittich is the backup, unless he craps the bed. Domingue is insurance, and AHL filler for a season of condensed schedules (NHL and AHL).
As for the others, my hopes/excitement would be ranked as follows:
Rittich is the backup, unless he craps the bed. Domingue is insurance, and AHL filler for a season of condensed schedules (NHL and AHL).
As for the others, my hopes/excitement would be ranked as follows:
Wolf
Parsons
Chechelev
Zagidulin
But none are close, obviously.
I know Tre said that Rittich will be the backup but GMs lie to the media all the time. I think he is out of favor in Calgary and will be dealt because the GM will want the 2.75m in cap space to address other issues. Rittich is basically average and is destined to play 20 games unless markstrom gets injured. Waste of 2.75m especially since the organization probably knows without markstom they would be hooped anyway with either Domingue or Rittich
Upcoming seasons compressed schedule has more to do with keeping BSD him to allow JM some much needed rest. Speculation is lots of back-to-backs or 3 games in 4 nights will require more games from a teams backup goalie. His 2.75 AAV is on the books for one more season and then likely packing his bags.
That's why Montreal got Jake Allen. Not to challenge Price for the #1.
__________________ “You continue to talk to teams, but I look at our forward group and I would put them against anybody."Darryl Sutter - February 25th, 2010
Upcoming seasons compressed schedule has more to do with keeping BSD him to allow JM some much needed rest. Speculation is lots of back-to-backs or 3 games in 4 nights will require more games from a teams backup goalie. His 2.75 AAV is on the books for one more season and then likely packing his bags.
That's why Montreal got Jake Allen. Not to challenge Price for the #1.
Really don't think there is a tremendous amount of difference between domingue and rittich at the end of the day. Rittich has a penchant for melting down. His highs are higher but his lows are lower. He collapses at exactly the wrong time each year he's played. They could just sign another league average depth goalie and trade Rittich and be no worse off imo. Then they might be able to get mangi on a 5 year deal or something.
I know Tre said that Rittich will be the backup but GMs lie to the media all the time. I think he is out of favor in Calgary and will be dealt because the GM will want the 2.75m in cap space to address other issues. Rittich is basically average and is destined to play 20 games unless markstrom gets injured. Waste of 2.75m especially since the organization probably knows without markstom they would be hooped anyway with either Domingue or Rittich
Rittich will be hard to move IMO. Best bet is to see if he responds this year.
Really don't think there is a tremendous amount of difference between domingue and rittich at the end of the day. Rittich has a penchant for melting down. His highs are higher but his lows are lower. He collapses at exactly the wrong time each year he's played. They could just sign another league average depth goalie and trade Rittich and be no worse off imo. Then they might be able to get mangi on a 5 year deal or something.
Yeah, he’s really inconsistent and his second half of the season was bad.
Treliving isn’t going to publicly say “we need to dump Rittich” and lose value. But if you trade him for picks to a team that’s going 1a 1b and then use Domingue, you might be able to get by and add more in terms of skaters.
Domingue’s 2019-2020 are a bad sample because he was hardly used. He was better previously as a more regular backup.
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Rittich will be hard to move IMO. Best bet is to see if he responds this year.
Didn't say they would get anything for him but I think the cap space he is owed would be much better spent on a long term deal for mangiapane who is looking more and more like an answer in the top 6.
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Didn't say they would get anything for him but I think the cap space he is owed would be much better spent on a long term deal for mangiapane who is looking more and more like an answer in the top 6.
Let's not forget that Rittitch went to the all star game last year. He still has to grow and mature but he still has the potential to be a quality NHL starter or 1a,1b goalie or at minimum a good nhl backup. Hopefully he learns from what happened last year and takes it as an opportunity to improve and show everyone what he is capable of on a consistent basis.
