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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
Eleven games into the season I would advise both sides of this argument to wait until April before the "I told you so quotes". I'm very happy to see Markstrom come out of the gates hot but he did so last season only for his play to fall off. The hallmark if a great goaltender is consistency so lets wait and see how he fares for the rest of the season maybe?
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Agree on the wait for told you so's
But he didn't just fall off magically ... he had a concussion from a pretty big open ice impact.
Bottom line to me is steals vs games he lost for them.
He stole win in Pittsburgh, and while I don't think he lost his team a game per say, he was outplayed by his counterpart in some other games for sure.
That's why I like goals saved above average, it's the best metric publicly available to date. Last year he was negative, this year he's ranked 7th at +6.5