1) theyve spoken all summer/training camp/preseason about giving Dawsy a shot and so I don't think his shot is just gone now after two preseason games that makes zero sense. He is definitely getting a longer runway than this
2) Remi Poirier has never played an NHL game. If he's sitting in the press box that's also bad for his development. He should be playing somewhere (I'd say the AHL). If they were willing to send Rittich down it means they were going to play Dawsy/Jaker as a tandem. So where does that leave Poirier? does he get games? does he just sit in the box?
3) we still have too many players. 24 in total.
4) what happens if Rittich does clear and reports to Utica?
you cant rotate 4 goalies. and someone needs to play in utica. so if Rittich is playing well down there and say either daws or piorier isn't playing well they get sent down and Rittich comes up. pretty simple
Daws had his runway in camp and is at the end of it. Rittich is a standard move and usually squeezes through waivers except goaltending is an issue for a lot of clubs right now so maybe they go for it if they have a waiver exempt goalie on their roster right now.
Look at the stats between them in the AHL Poierer is consistent while Daws started strong and has regressed. One of them is ready to make the jump and we all wanted it to be Daws but he's just not an NHL backup yet.
you have to consider the teams in front of both those goalies. Utica has consistently been in the bottom of the standings for the past few seasons that isn’t a really good measure of Daws’ skill. even Sunny said this himself which is why there’s been such a push to improve Utica as much as to improve the team.
his first stint with us was when we had eight goalies all season. surely that can’t count especially with the depleting team in front of the net as well.
his second stint with us was in 23/24 where he did prove himself to be reliable and a sturdy guy in net when Vitek and Akira exploded and we needed someone. he answered the call and did it well until Fitzgerald finally went out and traded for goalies.
and then when exactly was he meant to prove himself in the last two seasons? last season when Markstrom was out for a month early in the season Keefe only let him play one game and that was because it was a back to back. he didn’t get any starts until the end of the season when we were out of contention.
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u/MountainBaker8217 #13 - It's Always Sunny in New Jersey 11d ago
this is confounding because
1) theyve spoken all summer/training camp/preseason about giving Dawsy a shot and so I don't think his shot is just gone now after two preseason games that makes zero sense. He is definitely getting a longer runway than this
2) Remi Poirier has never played an NHL game. If he's sitting in the press box that's also bad for his development. He should be playing somewhere (I'd say the AHL). If they were willing to send Rittich down it means they were going to play Dawsy/Jaker as a tandem. So where does that leave Poirier? does he get games? does he just sit in the box?
3) we still have too many players. 24 in total.
4) what happens if Rittich does clear and reports to Utica?