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Originally Posted by Enoch Root
^ you look at those goalie stats and you have to come to one of two conclusions, either
1) the team in front of the goalie is largely responsible for the stats, or
2) the goalies are largely responsible for their teams' success
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It's both. I don't understand why it has to be one more than the other.
A bad goalie will drive down the team stats. A good defence will help a goalie's stats. Throw someone like Koskinen into the Flames net and his SV% will be slightly higher than his career average but the Flames W/L record will look a lot worse.
If you really want to harp on Markstrom for something, I see two things dating back to his years with the Canucks:
1. He plays deep in his net (not Mike Smith deep). Which is fine due to his size and positioning, but he does it nearly all the time and doesn't really adjust situationally (i.e. PK, 2 on 1's, puck being cycled, on the rush etc...). There are times when he needs to challenge way more (i.e. the first Hawks goal last night).
2. He's a decent puckhandling goalie and he knows it. So he cuts it way too tight sometimes and causes bad decisions (i.e. the second Hawks goal last night).