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Originally Posted by Bill Bumface
At least Markstrom isn't a pissy pants. He seems genuinely happy when Vladar wins, and I don't really see there being some distraction for the team if Vladar ultimately gets handed the reigns this season. Yeah, it sucks when an expensive guy isn't contributing, but it seems everyone involved wants to win, so it's about high time to go with the guy giving you the best shot and see what happens.
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It's pretty par for the course for goalies (though I daresay Smith was probably an exception, based on no evidence I can think of). and when you think about it, it's pretty great that goalies do that, since their position is the only one where you are directly being compared to one other guy on the team on a consistent basis.
The two actually play a very similar style and if anything's changed this year it's that Vladar has become more polished and Markstrom has sometimes become less so.