The players lost confidence in Markstrom in the first game, and then just played scared/tentative because they didn’t want to give up chances. It pulled them out of their game, and resulted in them scrambling through 5 games.
I really think Darryl’s only two choices were to roll lines and see if they learn the lesson on the fly, or yank markstrom for vladar. The latter is a tough call, so he left them to figure it out. I think he saw that it was out of his hands.
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