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Originally Posted by Textcritic
I don't know about that. Looking at all their numbers, both goalies are pretty even. I suspect that people are much more keen to give Vladar the benefit-of-the-doubt. Fans by-and-large seem to have a higher affinity for back-up goalies; Vladar is young and improving, and a lot of Flames fans are eager to see him succeed. This all plays into shaping our perspectives of him.
Most of the time, I really don't think one or the other goalie gives the Flames the best chance to win. They have been playing pretty even for a while now.
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I have to disagree at least a bit.
.894 vs .906? There is now a bit of a simple size and those are not similar. One is acceptable, one is frankly not. Especially as the bad number is over a much larger sample size, thus less likely to be skewed by a bad game or two.
I agree Markstrom has generally been playing quite well lately
But oh man, that last game against Chicago. A stinker
See the way he fell on his ass on the first goal?
See the juicy rebound he kicked out on the second?
See him not read or react to the pass at all on the third?
Again, on the numbers, considering W/L, Vladar picked up the loss, because of a single goal against, while Markstrom really handed Chicago the opportunity to win
So you can compare Vladar at 6-4-4 to Markstrom at 13-10-4 but two of Vladar’s OT losses came in such games where he relieved Markstrom, the Flames out scored the opponent on his watch, and couldn’t seal the deal in OT
And they don’t shelter Vladar. Markstrom gets the majority of starts against opponents below them in the standings
Look, I absolutely want to see both guys succeed. But they haven’t really had very comparable seasons. The numbers bear it out, they are right in front of us