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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
That may be true at the end of the day. But he's playing appropriate to who he is: a good, sometimes excellent, but not elite goaltender. He's doing his part, in other words. It's the other guys who aren't - the top guys. And maybe you've just given up on that happening, but I don't know why the reaction to top-end players underperforming is to demand that the goalie overperform to make up for them. Give those guys ####, not Markstrom, is what I'm saying.
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This is a talent problem or lack thereof. A void which was created by poor trades, a lack of change and a reliance on poor UFA signings for too long. The team is playing the system. The effort is there (for the most part). If you can't score and can't cash in on PP chances, it's not hard to see you need to upgrade talent to expect different results. Depth, which was increased this year doesn't go far enough if you don't have enough game breakers to make a difference in games like this.
If the only acceptable standard for Markstrom is to stand on his head every single night, and will this team to win games 2-1 there is a glaring problem with the makeup of this franchise.