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Originally Posted by DeluxeMoustache
My flux capacitor is in the shop
Nobody knows when Markstrom was hurt. If he was hurt bad enough on Feb 15 to affect performance, he shouldn’t have played the next 2 games. So who gets the blame? The player? The coaches?
It is at least as likely that he got hurt in the last game he played before it was determined he couldn’t play, no?
Seems convenient with the full benefit of hindsight to blame his bad nights on injury (might have happened) when maybe he was healthy enough to play (evidence to suggest so: he played) and the team stunk (evidence: they did).
Now if you said maybe Markstrom was injured on the 17th and traced it to the collision with Pearson, that is plausible, as it was a highly unusual play, and there was some impact. (But it doesn’t work with your idea that he was maybe injured on the 15th so both the 15th and 17th get blamed on the injury).
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Fine, then. The 17th. It doesn't do much to change the notion that Markstrom was excellent in the first month, and then looked a lot worse in games after a crazy collision with Pearson.
In the end I am unsure what any of this has to do with my initial point which you challenged: that the Flames coaches were struggling to find starts for Rittich in the first five or six weeks because of how poorly he was playing.