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Originally Posted by GioforPM
He is making saves he wasn't previously. And one game where the Flames as a team got stomped has skewed your stats. "Finding his gamne" doesn't mean he's going to play every game perfectly or avoid a bad one.
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His last two games, he looked more like he did in the first half of the season. He had a good 6 or 7 games after his kid but appears to have reverted back.
Sure, the LA game is not on him, but if he stops 1 or 2 that he shouldn't necessarily stop, potentially that wakes the team up. We have seen goalies doing it to us all year. We might not get a lot of high danger chances, however, when we do get one the opposing goalie seems to find a way to stop the puck. Markstrom does not.
The Majority of his 10 bell saves have been due to his poor rebound control on the first shot, or him sliding way out of position and losing his net, then just pure desperation to try and make a stop. So I guess good on him for trying to make the stop, but honestly if you just played positionally how you should, you wouldn't have to make the desperation save.
The Dallas game again maybe not all on him, but when you have a 1 goal lead in the third the goalie needs to lock it down, way too many times this year he has not had the ability to shut the door. At the end of the day the goalie is the last line of defense, and is there for when you do make those big gaffes, maybe not every time, but at least some of the time.
I am hopeful that he rebounds next year like Hellebuck has this year, but I am not holding my breath.