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Originally Posted by Blaster86
The Canucks are hesitating because if Demko comes out next year and continues to play as well as he did for parts of this season and the play-offs then you go with the cheaper, younger option going forward. It alleviates some cap issues and gives you more years at a good level of play vs Markstrom who is over 30 and will cost at a minimum of 5m.
Despite what Dino and Enoch love to hammer on, Demko was actually fantastic in a back up role last season. He didn't struggle until Markstrom got hurt. How Demko performed in the play-offs wasn't some "out of nowhere" thing like with Murray or Binnington. Demko is supposed to be that good. Long story short, Canucks would rather sell low on Demko to see if he can do it consistently next season. To do that, they need Markstrom.
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He was amazing in his playoff stint, nobody can take that away from him.
But fantastic as a backup?
Five on five he was ranked 51st out of 59 goaltenders that played 750 minutes this year in GSAA with a -8.17. In all situations his numbers improve to about -3.9, but that's basically David Rittich with less work and an easier work load.
Before Markstrom went down Demko had a .904 save percentage, after Markstrom went down Demko had a .906 save percentage, not much of a change, but the change was positive.
On the season he had a .889 save percentage against teams with a win% of .6 or more.
His degree of difficulty before the injury was an average opponent win% of .547, and with Markstrom out it was .573
He was amazing against Vegas, and he could just be a great goaltender and Vancouver's number one guy for a decade.
But his regular season wasn't amazing from any stat I could find.