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Originally Posted by GioforPM
His tough saves look easy because his positioning and tracking has been fantastic.
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This. Flames have had competent goalies who have had blocks of strong play, and blocks of weaker play, but watching this guy track the puck and the play... he's on a totally different level.
Mike Smith looked like this in that playoff run, but his style is nowhere near as controlled as Markstrom.
Watch that funny little puck flip at the end of the game where the puck deflects up off a stick and still heads to the net. You can see Markstrom track it the whole time, and his legs do a little "pre butterfly" flex about 3 times while the puck is in the air, it's pretty amazing to see how quick he is and how ready. Like everything's in slow mo for him right now.