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Originally Posted by genetic_phreek
If playing from behind such an issue for this team then this in itself is a bigger problem than Markstrom. To be a good team you need to be well rounded in both, playing from behind and playing with a lead. You can't win every game and you can't certainly rely on always scoring first in an 82 game season. This team needs to be able to play all situations which I don't think we can.
Just the fact that you think it's such a big uphill battle when we get scored on first is indicative of the way this team is built or the structure that we play.
Remember a few years back when we were "comeback kids"? Get scored on first, or losing the game and the feeling was the game is never over until the buzzer?
I truly don't believe we have a goaltending issue as much as defensive issues and scoring issues. We basically need vezina caliber goaltending to mask our deficiencies in scoring.
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It's a problem every team has. The team that scores first wins 70% of the time. Being able to come back is nice, but it doesn't happen most of the time.
https://www.nhl.com/flyers/news/melt...rs/c-302295016
The data set used in the link is older (from 2018), but I would bet it's generally the same every year. That year in particular, no team that scored first had a lower than 0.500 record.