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Originally Posted by Enoch Root
I don't think there is any question that he has been elite so far this year. We could count the weak goals on one hand, and might still have some fingers to spare.
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I would agree with that. I'd put it like this:
A) Goals I felt he
needed to have:
Fowler
Comeau
Suzuki
B) Saves I felt a starting goaltender with the advantage of the angles and time-to-react should still probably make, especially given time and score:
Benn
Forsberg
Bonino
And that's fine. That level of goaltending with this level of commitment to keeping the puck in the offensive zone is what you ask for.
But the Flames have played pretty outstanding in front their goalies for all but a few games (@Edmonton, @Rangers, @Pittsburgh, and @Toronto).
Of those four, the Edmonton game was the one where Zadorov-Tanev was still a thing so we may as well not overanalyze the results.
Markstrom gets fullmarks and then some for the MSG performance, and he didn't need to get a shutout to be the best player on the ice.
He was great against Pittsburgh, with the caveat that they were missing Letang, Crosby, Malkin, Carter.
Vladar was awesome against Toronto.