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Originally Posted by CSharp
Markstrom can stand on his head all night long. The saves percentage stat doesn't show how bad defensively the team is or how good the opposition team is in their defensive zones. The goalie is only one of six positions on the ice. If the Flames played their game on the other end of the ice and Markstrom gets no shots, his save percentage is 0.0% and if he gets 1 shot in the whole game and no goals, that's 100%, even if the puck is shot from 200ft from the other end of the rink. Just saying - he's not the problem for the Flames, especially this season.
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Backing this up ...
The Flames have the 6th best shots against / 60 five on five, but the 14th best xGA60. As a differential only one team has a wider difference between those two stats (Buffalo).
When shorthanded the Flames have the 29th best (3rd worst) expected goals against, and the 24th best shots against ... which is tighter but still top 5 in the league for difference not favouring the goaltender.
So relatively high expected goals against and low shots against.