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Originally Posted by TheSutterDynasty
Irving has not played well and has gotten more than enough opportunity in the past few years.
Not sure why people thought he played well on Saturday. He looked really shaky.
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Flames goaltending coach Clint Malarchuk disgrees with you....
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He made some fantastic saves,” goaltending coach Clint Malarchuk marvelled quietly as the Flames slipped out into the darkness outside Rogers Arena. “He didn’t let in a bad goal. It could have been worse without him tonight.”
It could have been worse without Irving. In fact, it could have gone into double digits
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Irving wears No. 37 in the Calgary net, but he looked very much like No. 34 in terms of acrobatics against a high-flying Vancouver team that simply toyed with the visitors.
In search of his third career NHL victory, Irving channelled his inner Kiprusoff in the first with a brilliant right-pad stop on former Flame Chris Higgins. He followed that up in the second period with a string of saves that including a forward sprawling snow-angel to rob Henrik Sedin and a brilliant blocker stop on Cochrane native Mason Raymond
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“He’s been through some adversity,” Malarchuk explained of his young goaltender. “But he came to our training camp, and I talked to him before that and said, ‘Just get your head on straight kid.’ And from the first day of our training camp he’s been unbelievable.”
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