I hope this game is eye-opening for people who are wondering why Sutter wasn’t riding Vladar earlier. Vladar is a great backup but he isn’t ready to be a starter yet. This team will only go as far as Markstrom can take them. Sutter knows it.
Relying on Vladar or calling up Wolf isn’t the answer right now. They’ll live and die by Markstrom, and unfortunately for us they’re dying pretty quickly by him right now.
They simply don’t have a guy who can steal them games this year. They played a great 40 minutes. They needed their goaltender to have a great 20 and they didn’t get it. Again.
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