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David Rittich
Los Angeles Kings Goaltender
Seven seasons, four organisations, and a .9012 that is the second-best save percentage of his last four years.
| Season | Team | GP | W | L | OTL | GA | GAA | SO | SA | SV% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-17 | CGY | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3.00 | 0 | 10 | .900 |
| 2017-18 | CGY | 21 | 8 | 6 | 3 | 49 | 2.92 | 0 | 512 | .904 |
| 2018-19 | CGY | 45 | 27 | 9 | 5 | 109 | 2.61 | 1 | 1228 | .911 |
| 2019-20 | CGY | 48 | 24 | 17 | 6 | 138 | 2.97 | 2 | 1478 | .907 |
| 2020-21 | CGY/TOR | 19 | 5 | 8 | 2 | 46 | 2.86 | 1 | 463 | .901 |
| 2021-22 | NSH | 17 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 49 | 3.57 | 0 | 431 | .886 |
| 2022-23 | WPG | 21 | 9 | 8 | 1 | 50 | 2.67 | 0 | 506 | .901 |
| 2023-24 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 172 | 79 | 51 | 21 | 442 | 2.87 | 4 | 4628 | .904 |
This Season So Far
The 2023-24 season has not started. The empty row above is his, and both it and this paragraph fill in on their own from the morning after he first plays: what he has done, what it is worth against his own last season, and the run he is on when the two disagree.
Last Season
9-8-1 in 21 games, .9012, 2.67, no shutouts on 506 shots — with Winnipeg.
A .9012 in twenty-one games behind Hellebuyck, who played sixty-four of the eighty-two and posted .9201. Twenty-one games is a third of a season and nothing in the figure is stable.
The career line is 2.61, 2.97, 2.86, 3.57, 2.67 in goals-against average and .9112, .9066, .9006, .8863, .9012 in save percentage. Five seasons of a backup’s numbers with one bad year in the middle of them.
Seven seasons, 172 games.
The Finesse Game
6-3 and 200, and a big, upright, positional style that relies on being in the right place rather than on getting there quickly.
He controls rebounds poorly by the standards of this book’s better goaltenders, which is the specific thing that turns a .910 into a .900 across a season. Against clean shots he is fine. Against the second and third chance he is not.
One shutout in seven seasons and 172 games.
The Intangibles
Undrafted, out of Czechia, signed by Calgary at twenty-three, and a backup ever since.
All three goaltenders in this Los Angeles chapter were undrafted, which is either an accident or a policy and this book cannot tell which.
He is thirty-one, on a one-year contract, competing with Talbot and Copley for two jobs. Nothing in seven seasons suggests he wins more than twenty-five starts.
What kind of player
The searchable half of the report. The first group is computed from the season's own data; the rest are read out of the prose above, and each one carries the sentence that produced it. A subject the report never raised is simply absent.
- a strengthread out of the prose, and claimed
- he lacks itraised, and he does not have it
Each computed tag also says how well its measure holds up from one season to the next, because a tag describes a season that has finished and a reader will assume it predicts the one coming. Some do and some do not, and the gap is wide: five-on-five workload repeats well, scoring late does not repeat at all.
“**Undrafted**, out of Czechia, signed by Calgary at twenty-three, and a backup ever since.”
“He controls rebounds poorly by the standards of this book's better goaltenders, which is the specific thing that turns a .910 into a .900 across a season.”