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Originally Posted by Huntingwhale
At this point the team is simply shooting themselves in the foot as long as they keep going back to Markstrom in a feeble attempt for him to "build his confidence back", or whatever other excuse they can find. As dumb as it sounds, I truly believe those above Sutter need to step in and do something about it.
It's like having the cure for what ails you in one vile, yet the doctor keeps injecting you with the other vile that keeps making you sicker and sicker. Not a fan of the GM stepping in to make lineup decisions, but at this point something needs to be done if this season has any chance of being saved.
I like Markstrom and think he's a good dude. But this isn't Sept/Oct/Nov where you still have some leash to find your game. This is crunch time where points MATTER and in the world's best hockey league the coaches should be icing the best roster possible to get those points. You can't tell me with a straight face that the coaches all sit in the same room together, compare the play of Markstrom and Vladar, and come away thinking that Markstrom offers the best chance to win. Pretty obvious that Sutter is a stubborn old man who is hanging onto this pipe dream of somehow breaking a Vezina goalie out of his funk and going on a run.
Meanwhile, the younger guy who can take you on that run your team desperately needs, sits in his stall wonder WTF he needs to do to get more ice time. Literally ties the franchise's goaltending record for going undefeated, yet stapled to the bench. ####ing LOL.
Kind of done with this team until they make the hard decision (which really isn't that hard TBH) and puts the damn 1B goalie in net for a long stretch run. I still want to believe "in Sutter we trust", but step 1 is Vladar in net. Without that step, this team is done for.
On a positive note, Tyler Folli is the ####! Doing his best Iggy impression from the faceoff dot. Almost PPG. Set to smash his career offensive totals. Good Tyler Folli.
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The vezina nomination might be the worst thing to happen to him
His season was skewed by the shutouts, which were driven by complete team efforts in front of him
Saying "we have a vezina nominee" is the unfortunate excuse they can go to no matter how bad the play is and make it sound like giving him starts is still justified when it no longer is
If they want to ride or die with the guy because he had a hot season *last year*, then enjoy the incoming 9th place finish and the fallout from that
Time to get with reality. There's no runway left to figure it out
If you aren't willing to cut the weak links loose because you shook hands with them and feelings, etc, then you will never be a championship team
Because you will sooner or later line up against a team along the way willing to make those tough decisions you aren't willing to make in order to ice their best possible line up and they'll win because of that