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Originally Posted by InternationalVillager
Markstrom gave up an awful goal tonight. However, you can't take those singular instances to try and build a narrative. His GSAA is still positive. He's saved more shots than have been expected to be saved by analytics. This notion would lead you to believe that the Flames as a whole have not been good defensively this season as they need to be. So- yes he should have had that shot saved tonight but overall- the team really needs to clean up their systems and defensive play if they want to turn this around.
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His stats before tonight, which will get worse, had him 18th in goals saved above expected among goalies with 6 or more games. After tonight I'm guessing he drops down to the 20's.
He's been bad. Team defence has been poor, but Markstrom has been worse.