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David Rittich
Los Angeles Kings Goaltender
Undrafted out of Jihlava, and a .9211 in twenty-four games behind a .8904.
| 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 | LAK | 24 | 13 | 6 | 3 | 49 | 2.15 | 3 | 621 | .921 |
| 2024-25 so far | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Career | — | 196 | 92 | 57 | 24 | 491 | 2.78 | 7 | 5249 | .906 |
This Season So Far
The 2024-25 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
24 games, 13-6-3, a .9211 save percentage and a 2.15 goals-against average with 3 shutouts on 621 shots faced.
Three shutouts in twenty-four games and the best save percentage of his career at 31, against a career .9065 across 196 games. He was the best of the three goaltenders who played for this club last season, and the man who took 54 of the games at .9128 has gone to Detroit.
The Physical Game
He is 6-3 and 200 and challenges at the top of the crease rather than sitting in it.
Seven career shutouts in 196 games, three of them last season. The glove is the best part of him. He recovers across the crease quickly for his size, which is what the aggressive depth requires.
The Mental Game
He does not handle the puck much and the club does not ask him to.
Twenty-four games is the most he has played in four years and the .9211 is the best he has managed in eight. A backup with one very good season at 31 is the hardest thing in this book to grade, and the sample says be careful.
The Intangibles
Undrafted, out of Jihlava, eight seasons across five organisations, and 92 wins in 196 games.
He is 32 and the club re-signed him after that season. If the .9211 was real, the goaltending problem was solved by accident; if it was twenty-four games, it is still there.
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.
“He is 6-3 and 200 and challenges at the top of the crease rather than sitting in it.”
“He is 6-3 and 200 and challenges at the top of the crease rather than sitting in it.”
“He recovers across the crease quickly for his size, which is what the aggressive depth requires.”
“He does not handle the puck much and the club does not ask him to.”
“Undrafted, out of Jihlava, eight seasons across five organisations, and 92 wins in 196 games.”