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Originally Posted by SuperMatt18
Lehner has been better than Markstrom each of the last two seasons, and is younger. If he got to UFA he was the best goalie available.
Lehner has lost two games 3-2 (OT), and 2-1 and has a .925 save percentage in this series vs. Dallas.
He has 5 goals against in the series. 3 of them on high danger shots, 2 on medium danger shots, and 0 on low danger shots.
Not his fault the forwards can't buy a goal at the other end of the ice. This isn't a Brian Elliott vs the Ducks situation where the goalie is single handedly costing them games.
(Out of curiosity I checked and Elliott let in 7(!!!) low danger goals against in that series. He let in the third most low danger goals of the entire playoffs...in 4 games)
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Elliott was so bad in that series.
I just took a look at Talbot in these playoffs...
Ugh.
Talbot allowed 6 low-danger goals in 10 games - oh and even worse, all 6 low-danger goals happened in the 6 games against Dallas...and he even had a friggin’ shutout in that series. Talbot may have won game 3 with that shutout, but he lost that series for us.
Compare that to:
Lehner: 2 in 21 games
Khudobin: 5 in 17
Varlamov: 4 in 18
Vasilevsky: 2 in 17
So yeah, goaltending was a big issue for the Flames in the playoffs. Massive.
This is why we’re rumoured to be in on these goalies on the trade market. The management team knows goaltending sunk them.