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Originally Posted by sketchyt
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).
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Thinking over that play I wonder if Tanev didn't communicate. Markstrom's back was to him and Markstrom typically doesn't make the risky pass.
On the first Hawk's goal, the puck was pretty safely along the boards until it just squirted out into danger. It was a pretty quick play.
If he lets in 2 or less, the Flames win most games.