Johnny Hoxville
The Return of a Legend
Rittich is 25 years old with plenty of pro experience in Europe and the AHL, he was our back-up this year and part of a back-ups job is to fill in when the starter is injured. If he can't handle this then we should be looking to move on from him not shelter him and bring in another guy.
I don’t totally disagree, but you’re still talking about a guy who has a total of 17 NHL games, and up until Smith was hurt, all of his starts were handpicked. There’s a big difference to how he’s being used now. I don’t think it’s wise to just throw a goalie in the deep end like how both of our young guys have. I know we’ve had no choice, but if Smith is gonna be out for a while, we should have gotten someone like Ramo or even Mason for cheap.