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Originally Posted by activeStick
It's nice to hear from an actual expert that their data shows Markstrom not having allowed a single bad goal in two years or however long it was. Bad goals are huge downers for teams and leads to massive momentum swings. I know a few resident Canuck fans had said as well that Markstrom was good for a weak goal against every couple games, so it's a relief to hear something different from that from an expert.
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Originally Posted by Blaster86
It's not that he hadn't let a bad goal in. It's that he hadn't let a goal that was an expected save from certain areas, which is something Rittich struggled with. He has an awful habit of letting in goals from the goal line though...
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Not to be a downer but I find it incredibly hard to believe that over the course of a season, albeit a shortened one, that Markstrom (or any clear cut top goalie in the league) didn't let in a single ''bad'' goal. I guess it's subjective in the description of what a bad goal implies, as Blaster's post suggests. But I am sure there is a highlight real somewhere of a goal against Markstrom where Canuck fans might have groaned.
Anyways, the fact that this is even a topic of discussion makes me excited to see him in net, as it sounds like those kind of back-breaking goals are few and far in between. Definitely the highlight of the offseason for me is his signing. Excited to see what him and the other Swedes on the team can do as a unit!