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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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Agree to disagree, the soft goals/mental gaffes seem to be more prominent vs that team than any other. I acknowledged he played pretty good Saturday night, but all it takes is one instant of panic or pressure where you don't react appropriately to indicate to me that the opposition can be in your head, especially when it happens over and over. You miss the rim, no big deal, but his reaction and panic to get back into net indicated to me that his behaviour was altered potentially due to the opponent. Goalies missing a dump in happens a million times a game with goalies rushing to get back into the net, you however don't often see a goalie completely scramble past his near post that a shot thats going dead centre net goes in.
I could be reading to much into this, people who don't think this is the case could be correct. However in my eyes, as currently constructed, Markstrom is the biggest question mark as to whether this team could go deep or not. Odds are we will play the Oilers too.