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Originally Posted by Enoch Root
Didn't want to restate your whole post, but it is a testament to what I have been saying for a long time which is: goalie stats are pretty much useless.
Team trades 2 top 4 defensemen, and goes from okay to terrible, giving up 5 alarm changes all over the place, and the goalie's stats tank. Huh.
Was Markstom as hot as he was earlier? No. But how could he be? It's a team game, and looking at stats can miss that sometimes.
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Fair enough. If you are taking the position that goalie stats don't matter then we'll just have to disagree. There is nothing that I have seen which indicates that the Flames started giving up a ton more chances after Hanifin and Tanev were gone and I think Wolf's performance over the same period aligns with that.
Markstrom was the worst goalie in the league over his last eight games and it made a huge difference.