Vitek’s first game of the year (opening night) was really good and I thought that was literally his best game until the 2-1 OT win over Boston, which was his first game of the year of only allowing one goal and one of I think 3 starts of 1 goal. The other two being Columbus and the 1-0 OTL against Carolina in what was his final game as a Devil.
He had a pretty good game in Tampa right before all star break, where he allowed 4 goals on 40 or more shots, many were high quality and he stood on his head to make the final score look close.
Other than literally those 4 games I can’t think of any other where he played any better than just decent. There were a bunch of 2 goal against games where the team played really good (Pittsburgh and one against Minnesota) or where we played a shit opponent (Chicago twice) and I can’t remember much to really brag about other than those I already mentioned. He also had at least two games where we won 6-5. One against Vancouver and one against Vegas.
Schmid had the 2-1 win over Seattle in December, which was better than any game Vitek had played to that point in the season. He also had the game where we won 4-3 against Philly where he faced 112 shots and they threw him in the very next night against San Jose where he had a game that was worse than anybody had in goal this year for us.
At least the second time they played him two nights in a row it was because Vitek got sick and didn’t dress the second night.