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Originally Posted by SuperMatt18
My eyes see a goalie who has lost all confidence and who is playing small when there are scrambles in front and who is having a hard time tracking the puck. Every save is a bit of a battle for Markstrom right now.
Let’s look at the goals tonight:
1) Spezza - Bad coverage by the dmen but Markstrom still looks small in his net and is playing very passive. No real fault here IMO.
2) Matthews - Top of the circle, nice play by him and Nylander on the rush but that’s still a saveable shot. Matthews beats a lot of goalies clean from there though.
3) Simmonds - Honestly he should save this one. Super late reading the developing play, should be able to get across to get a pad on the deflection from a falling down Simmonds. Didn’t track the puck well at all and seems to lose his net a bit.
A horrible time to give up a goal right after they tie it.
4) Matthews - Defense needs to do a better job of clearing out, but the whole play starts because he doesn’t catch what should have been a routine save and bobbles the rebound right in front of himself.
5) Tavares - Again a puck battle between Dube and Tavares ends up with a scrambled shot for Tavares but honestly Markstrom shouldn’t be getting beat that clean from there.
Tavares goal is similar to the McDavid game winner the other night. Not a soft goal but a big save would be nice under the circumstances since it’s a saveable shot.
Like I said he’s not letting in soft goals but you’d want him to save at least one and preferably two of these goals tonight. You’re okay if he lets in three of these goals but he can’t let in all 5 of them. Especially the last three goals - based on the timing he really needs to make at least one of those saves for you.
And once again nothing here that screams “Flames give up higher quality high danger chances against than other teams do”, they just aren’t getting big saves.
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I’m slightly more on the side of Markstrom here, but we essentially agree. Not soft goals. He did need to save more of these tonight