[djsFlames]

Flames give up a handful of really high danger opportunities per game and do not clear rebounds or loose pucks effectively with consistency.

Any goalie playing here is often forced to make theatrical type robbery saves a couple times just to keep enough pucks out for us to deem their performance acceptable.

Its a different breed of animal here with how many brainfarts out team defence has over the course of sixty minutes. You have to do less superman stuff as a goalie on probably 60-70% of other teams. You're just better sheltered on a number of teams.

Vancouver is not one though and Markstrom fared very well there. One consistency in his career is his struggles with Canadian teams. He doesn't have a good career sv% against most of the Canadian clubs. And even with Vancouver I think he was giving up over 3 per game vs the Oilers.

I think he'll fare better against other teams that he has a better track record against.

But I think if all things were equal and we did our part defensively most nights, markstrom would easily be a top 10 or 15 goalie statistically.

Letting guys like McDavid and Draisatl split our D and dance right in almost unchallenged as frequently as they do is just unnacceptable. Sutter has some work to do to get the fundamentals in our end down pat.