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Originally Posted by Textcritic
I think this is nonsense. I might agree if Markstrom played poorly, let in an early goal or at any point looked shaky, but he didn't. On the whole, Markstrom had a great game, and he looked poised and confident pretty much from start to finish. The goal scored by McHobo was an unfortunate mistake, but if that same game happened v. ANY other team we would not be talking about Markstrom's lack of confidence, or inability to perform.
I think what is going on is that Markstrom is still getting into form, and it has been exceedingly difficult going this year because of how much layoff there has been for him between games, and because he has yet to play on the road. The schedule has been the culprit behind a lot of the Flames's early kinks, and they cannot get on the road and in a rhythm of playing every second night soon enough. Once they do, then I have no doubt that little mistakes like we saw from Markstrom in the third period will correct themselves.
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Sub .900 save percentage through 3 whole seasons against one team. Tell yourself whatever you want but there has been ample opportunity, under a variety of different conditions for markstrom to prove he's not impacted differently against the oilers but he has been incapable of doing so. Even going back to his Vancouver time he was not good against the oilers. I think we should just accept it and play vladar against them. Who cares, we can and will beat them with vladar and Marky can continue to play well against other teams.