[Signing] Preds sign David Rittich (1 yr, $1.25 mil)

[Enoch Root]

Originally Posted by CSharp

I actually haven't been bashing Tre as hard as some, but there's starting to be a pattern where he's missed some good signings based on what he's done for the past few seasons, especially for overpayment on goalies. Yeah, I can understand why Rittich may not want to sign with the Flames because Markstrom IS the number one goalie - based on how much he's paid. But who's fault is that?

What?

Markstom is the #1 because he is a much better goalie.

He isn't the #1 because he gets paid the most, he gets paid the most because he is the #1.

[dino7c]

People want change yet they want to keep all the players...Rittich was good at times but always choked when he got a chance to be the guy.

GL to him...hope his bro is a fan of the mascot there

[mikephoen]

Kind of off topic, but it's weird that baseball now plans pitcher's seasons down to the pitch, but hockey still doesn't seem to have any system for managing goalie starts beyond how the coaching staff feels. I guess some teams might be tracking this stuff and trying to be more scientific about the starts, but to my knowledge this has never become public.

Imagine if hockey treated goalies even more like pitchers and had a 'starter' and a 'closer'. Or kept the 2nd guy 'warm' by shooting pucks at him in the dressing room or something, instead of having him sit on the bench opening and closing the door.

It'll probably never happen though. Hockey is slow to change and rarely tries radically different things.

[Jay Random]

Baseball doesn't do that with pitchers because it's more advanced than hockey. Baseball does it because the human arm can't stand that kind of workload day after day. There's a reason why MLB teams have around a dozen pitchers in the bullpen and NHL teams only carry two goalies on the roster.

Playing goal doesn't involve so much physical stress on one part of the body that you routinely have to yank a guy out of the net before he plays 60 minutes.

[DeluxeMoustache]

I’d entertain the argument that you don’t need a backup goalie as much due to physical maintenance as mental

[memphusk]

Originally Posted by Jay Random

Baseball doesn't do that with pitchers because it's more advanced than hockey. Baseball does it because the human arm can't stand that kind of workload day after day. There's a reason why MLB teams have around a dozen pitchers in the bullpen and NHL teams only carry two goalies on the roster.

Playing goal doesn't involve so much physical stress on one part of the body that you routinely have to yank a guy out of the net before he plays 60 minutes.

Just mental stress. Like when the Oilers would put mental stress on their goalies because the put that other ####ty goalie in for shootouts.

[Jay Random]

Originally Posted by memphusk

Just mental stress. Like when the Oilers would put mental stress on their goalies because the put that other ####ty goalie in for shootouts.

Hey, come on. There are only 23 men on an NHL roster. You could rotate all 23 of them in goal and it still wouldn't adequately dilute the mental stress of playing goal for the Oilers.