You don’t need to be a two time winning Stanley Cup coach to work out what went wrong last night and on too many occasions throughout most of the season.
It did look for a short period that Sutter helped Markstrom through an extended period of low confidence and poor play that stretched right back to the second round of the play-offs. It sure doesn’t look like it now though.
Going to Vladar now is the most obvious decision the coach can make now. I’m not saying don’t use Markstrom at all, but we really need to see a lot more of Vladar. We are in win right now mode and Markstrom isn’t cutting it and the future of goaltending on this team certainly does not lie with Markstrom who is breaking the back of what is admittedly a very mentally fragile team.
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