{"id":775666,"date":"2026-07-03T03:39:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T03:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/775666\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T03:39:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T03:39:08","slug":"devils-expected-to-sign-david-rittich-pro-hockey-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/775666\/","title":{"rendered":"Devils Expected To Sign David Rittich \u2013 Pro Hockey Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"

After trading Jacob Markstrom<\/a> to Florida recently, the Devils needed some extra depth between the pipes.\u00a0 It appears that they\u2019ve found that player as PuckPedia reports (Twitter link<\/a>) that New Jersey is expected to sign David Rittich<\/a> to a one-year, $1MM contract.<\/p>\n

The 33-year-old was brought in as injury insurance by the Islanders last season with the uncertainty surrounding Semyon Varlamov<\/a>.\u00a0 That proved to be a wise move as Varlamov didn\u2019t see any NHL action while Rittich wound up playing in 30 games, putting up a 2.76 GAA along with a .894 SV%.\u00a0 He also ranked 29th in the NHL in Goals Saved Above Expected, per MoneyPuck<\/a>, with a mark of +4.2.<\/p>\n

For his career, Rittich has 260 NHL appearances under his belt over parts of 10 seasons.\u00a0 He has predominantly been a backup goalie during that stretch, playing to a 2.79 GAA along with a .903 SV%.<\/p>\n

With Markstrom now gone, Jake Allen<\/a> is the current projected starter for New Jersey, a role he hasn\u2019t held very often in recent years.\u00a0 Rittich also isn\u2019t a starter at this point of his career while Nico Daws<\/a>, who inked a new two-year deal yesterday, has played in just nine NHL games over the past two seasons and isn\u2019t coming off a particularly strong season in the minors.<\/p>\n

At the moment, New Jersey has around $7.6MM in cap room, per PuckPedia<\/a>.\u00a0 Should Barrett Hayton<\/a>\u2019s offer sheet not be matched, they\u2019ll be down to a little under $3MM.\u00a0 As long as there aren\u2019t any other signings of note planned, the Devils could afford to be a team that rotates through three netminders, allowing all of them to fill their usual workloads.\u00a0 It\u2019d be an unusual approach but given the players they have, it might be their best option at the moment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After trading Jacob Markstrom to Florida recently, the Devils needed some extra depth between the pipes.\u00a0 It appears…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":775667,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,367941,7519,575,85,206],"class_list":["post-775666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-david-rittich","tag-new-jersey-devils","tag-nhl","tag-sports","tag-transactions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=775666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/775667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=775666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=775666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=775666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}