The New Jersey Devils announced today that the team has signed goaltender David Rittich to a one-year, one-way contract worth $1,000,000. The announcement was made by General Manager Sunny Mehta.<\/p>\n
Rittich, 33, spent last season as a backup goalie for the New York Islanders, playing 30 games. Of those 30 NHL games, he started 28 and posted a 14-10-3 record, a 2.76 goals-against average, and a .894 save percentage, with two shutouts. Last year was the fourth-straight season, and the seventh time in his career, that he has appeared in at least 20 NHL games. Rittich joined the Islanders as a free agent from Los Angeles on July 1, 2025.<\/p>\n
The 6-foot-3, 205-pound netminder has appeared in 260 career games over ten NHL seasons with Calgary, Toronto, Nashville, Winnipeg, Los Angeles, and the Islanders, compiling a 122-81-29 record, 2.79 goals-against average, a .903 save percentage and nine shutouts. He\u2019s also played in four Stanley Cup Playoff games with three teams. His best NHL season came in 2018-19 with the Flames, where he set a career high in wins and posted a record of 27-9-5, with a 2.61 GAA and .911 save% in 45 games. Rittich also represented Calgary at the 2020 NHL All-Star Game.<\/p>\n
Signed as an undrafted free agent by Calgary on June 13, 2016, Rittich has played in 59 career regular-season American Hockey League games with the Stockton Heat (Calgary) and Ontario Reign (Los Angeles), compiling a 29-22-7 record with a 2.55 GAA, .911 save% and 10 shutouts. In four career Calder Cup Playoffs games with Stockton, Rittich went 2-1-0 with a 2.88 GAA and .917 SV%.<\/p>\n
The native of Jihlava, Czechia, represented his home country at the 2018 IIHF Men’s World Championship (WC), posting a 2-1-0 record with a 1.98 GAA, .900 SV% and one shutout.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New Jersey Devils announced today that the team has signed goaltender David Rittich to a one-year, one-way…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":741020,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-741019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=741019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/741020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=741019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=741019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=741019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}