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Originally Posted by Textcritic
Every Flames fan would love for Markstrom to have a great season, but I suspect that for some posters they also hope this would somehow validate their anecdotally-formed opinions of Sigalet.
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It was a no-win situation for Sigalet once they signed Markstrom. If Markstrom played well it would be assumed that it was all Markstrom given his play of the past few seasons. If he struggled then fans would blame Sigalet for making another goaltender worse. This is for the best and maybe management recognized with the amount invested in Markstrom they couldn't afford to screw this up and made these organization changes. I don't think any opinion on Sigalet is anecdotal as goaltending has been pretty poor post-Kipper. That's a fact that can't be disputed. It's not a matter of the team hanging on to a couple of mediocre goaltenders for too long either as Treliving tried and tried with several goaltending additions. If a team has half a decade of a poor powerplay it's not anecdotal evidence when surmising the powerplay coach isn't getting the job done. Professional sports is a results oriented business so while I understand Sigalet could be good at some aspects of his job the reality is that that goaltenders more than not were not improving under his tutelage. Results are results.