This doesn't make any sense. You can rank risk, it's not a binary analysis. This is the largest risk to team success, and yes, that includes being higher than if Gaudreau or Monahan go down. In addition, how on earth can you state that Smith isn't a major injury risk? He's older, and plays very hard for a goalie (which makes him good, but still a double edged sword), and it was a groin injury (sometimes a goalies death kiss). And no, Rittich or Gillies cannot handle a starting role based on what we've seen so far. Now there is a slim possibility that one of them takes a massive leap this year, but why take this new promising roster and build in that big of a risk when it can be addressed now. We are no longer a rebuilding team, our time to contend is opening now, we should not be in the business of developing goalies at the NHL level. This team needs more certainty in net because of where our roster is at and team expectations.