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Originally Posted by The Cobra
I agree that I'd like to see what he does post injury.
But he's never got a full workload because he never deserved a full work load.
I expect this is Vladar's last year with Calgary.
But as I've said, you just never know about goalies, and they can certainly develop late.
But this is an important year for him, as he'll get his chances.
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I think it's hard for goalies coming in cold all the time to show what they are really made of, and when you are back up to a work horse like Markstrom, it's hard not to be coming in cold all the time. Plus a "win now" attitude doesn't allow for much rope.
He has shown flashes of being a good goalie and I think to see if he really deserves it, you need to play him for a decent stretch of games. If you want to develop a #1 goalies, sometimes you need to play them as one. Given where the Flames are in the competitive window, they have the luxury to finally let him sink or swim. Hopefully that surgery holds up though.