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Originally Posted by Sandman
Not a popular opinion, but Markstrom makes me nervous. To me, he was always kind of a mediocre goalie until the last few years. IMO, he just seems to be a candidate to go the way of an Elliott/Hiller/Smith the older he gets.
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Elliott was always fairly inconsistent with St. Louis. Hiller was never the same after struggling with vertigo. Smith was old, with a ton of mileage and declining.
Markstrom was always said to be a top goaltending prospect, it took him longer than most to actually become that, but once he became a top goaltender, he hasn't faltered and his numbers were hurt by the teams in front of him.
There is nothing about his path that is comparable to those 3.