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Originally Posted by dino7c
He was 4th in Vezina voting and beat the Wild and Blues in the playoffs standing on his head. He was good against lots of teams. Maybe the Canadian div wasn't the best fit but he was still lights out before the injury.
He has been bad against Edmonton apparently but they offered him 5x7
Maybe a bit of a factor I guess but I still think Markstrom is elite and will get back there soon
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I agree, he will get back there.
I was just thinking about how much it factored into how aggressively we went after him. They weren't just sniffing around his camp. It looked like an organizational jihad to get him in that jersey.
I do think we see now how fragile this guy's body can be, and will need a backup to shoulder possibly 30 games each season. Not the 10-20 like during Kipper's tenure.
And he may not have been injured if the Flames didn't ride him in that four game set against the Canucks. He had so much desire to stick it to his old team that he wanted all of those starts. They obliged and it worked against him by the end of it.
Starts for him have to be moderated going forward, for his own good.