Hopefully this hasn't been posted ... I'll delete if it has.
But Francis had an article up last night with an interview with Sutter on goalie usage.
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The Flames coach finally revealed those numbers in a one-on-one interview with Sportsnet.ca just before the Flames finished their very first three-game sweep through California.
“If it’s 60, 61, 62 games, as far as minutes, I won’t let him get over a certain number,” said Sutter. “Unless he’s banged up or sick. I don’t even think much about it.”
Sutter, who insists his goalie cap revolves around minutes, not starts, has started Markstrom 56 times this season, totalling 3,328 minutes.
Should Markstrom play the equivalent of 62 games, he would reach 3,720 minutes.
That leaves him with 392 minutes to play, which equates to six-and-a-half more games.
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Sure sounds like a pretty even split the rest of the way by the design of it.
https://www.sportsnet.ca/nhl/article...-get-him-rest/