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Originally Posted by GioforPM
He wasn't though. Smith gave up way worse goals than Markstrom. There were just way less quality chances. Take last night. Not a single goal on Markstrom was bad. 3 on Smith were counting the disallowed goal.
Look at the game before. Markstrom had a puckhandling error - I've seen that hundreds of times from goalies. Smith let in one from the opposite blue line. I've seen that maybe a couple times in my life. Game three? Yeah Smith was better. Game two? Nah. Game one? Certainly not.
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Markstrom got "better" as the series went on, but you are giving Smith too little credit for many big saves he made and focusing on the terrible Anderson goal. Stats that quantify goalie performance all show Smith was significantly better than Markstrom. As do basic stats like save percentage.
We were so used to our goalies being an after thought this year with how well the team played defensivly, that as soon as we can't lock it down we don't expect our goalies to make any saves.
There is no excuse for an 852 save percentage in the playoffs. None.
Since coming to Calgary Markstrom had had one terrible regular season, one great regular season, one great playoff series and one terrible playoff series. $6million in cap for a guy who shows up half the time.