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Originally Posted by Knightslayer
Honestly your point isn't being missed but I am failing to see what your end goal is with your arguments.
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End goal? There is none, hence why I am done with this thread. But why defend my position that hasn't changed since game 2? Because I've seen no reason to change it a whopping seven games later.
At the beginning of this thread, I said that I don't think Markstrom is a difference-maker. In all honesty I don't think there are many goalies like that. There are goalies who can be that in good years (Tim Thomas, Prime Lundvqvist, Price, Bobrovsky, MAF, Gibson, Vasilevsky etc) but even they have some cringey down years. Usually there's about two or three goalies a year MAX who can sustain it all regular season and even then they tend to be burnt out by the time the playoffs start.
I think goaltending is a position that is typically good enough if it's not outright losing you games (Hiller 2016, Eliott 2017 Playoffs, Talbot Game6, Markstrom post-injury last year) and have never been someone to think goalies are the issue. I've even said Rittich and Ramo were good enough, and they were probably average in the grand scheme.
Since then, dino7c made it his personal mission to "prove me wrong" because I went to a thread about Oliver Kylington, and pulled up three of his concieted, matter-of-fact claims about the player from Spring 2021. Maybe not the classiest thing I've done, but certainly not something to have a vendetta over (to the point of sending angry PMs and changing his signature in a holier-than-me show of fake humility). dino7c really wants me to admit I am wrong about Markstrom - but I don't think I am. For all the flack I am getting about QS% - I sincerely think it's an important stat and a star goalie should be posting a QS% over .600 during a good year.
I think he's a good enough goalie, but he hasn't been the single best goalie in the league this year and I don't think a nine game sample size really changes my overall opinion of his eliteness versus the other 250+ games of his career.
What I am glad to be wrong about however is that Markstrom has flashed an ability to win games where he is seeing low shot totals. This was a legitimate concern he seems to be reducing my concerns over every time he wins a game with low shot totals. It is NOT a guaranteed transition.
Now I'm actually done.