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Originally Posted by habernac
Exhausting Markstrom from playing him too much down the stretch is hardly Markstrom's fault.
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His last games in the regular season were on these dates:
April 21
April 28 - Last regular season game
May 03 - First playoff game
In those thirteen days, he played a grand total of 3 games. That is more than enough time to recover. He also basically had a week off between his last 2 games of the regular season. If I recall, there was concern at the time that he wasn't going to get enough playing time before the playoffs began.
Also, if you will just go back a few pages, you'll see how everyone in this thread is basically calling him the MVP of the previous series and how we wouldn't be here if it weren't for him.
So no, it has nothing to do with Markstrom being exhausted. Call it how it is, Markstrom has not played well, simple as that. Don't need to qualify the argument or make up excuses. It sucks, but it happens, just hope he's better next game.