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Originally Posted by GranteedEV
Markstrom needs to better. He's lost a handful of games which were tied or led during the 2nd or 3rd period. Not really a recipe for success.
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It's not just on him. The whole team needs to be better. This isn't the team scoring 3-5 goals and still losing because he let in 2-3 goals he should have had. Yes, Ramo and Johnson have won those 1-0, 2-1 games. Every goalie has at one point. I would still take Markstrom over both any day. The guy has four shutouts already and even though they weren't 1-0 shutouts where the team got dominated he still came up big at times. The amount of goals a team scores in a shutout isn't necessarily the amount of goals they would have scored had their goalie not stopped everything. Even in the OT losses he made stops on breakdowns that had he not they don't even get a point.
I remember you saying or something similar to that you don't expect him to be perfect but yes you do.