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Originally Posted by Textcritic
Markstrom is a proven starting goalie in the playoffs. Before an absolutely spectacular performance v. Dallas he won a series v. St Louis almost singlehandedly.
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Was just about to say this. Markstrom has probably shown the highest ability to play in the playoffs of anyone on the Flames roster, aside from maybe Coleman and Lucic of 10 yrs ago.
Of course he's also shown that he's not always great. I don't think he was the Canucks problem in rd 2 against VGK as they failed to score in 2 of his 4 starts, but it also didn't seem like a crazy idea to switch to Demko...it just seemed like a hail-mary, and it nearly worked (and no, switching to Vladar would have been dumb).
More reason to re-think Markstrom's load mgmt, though.