[D as in David]

Originally Posted by Erick Estrada

The slash was not intended for his teammate as it was kind of an unfortunate turn of events with him trying to serve a message to an opposing forward likely trying to get under his skin. Not a great play but it's not a lot different than players of the same team colliding on ice as just bad timing. I'm the furthest thing from a Markstrom (his series against the Oilers was one of the worst playoff performances in Flames history) defender but you have to be heavily biased against him to pin that loss on him.

Goaltenders are a tight-knit group. And patient. This was payback by Markstrom against defenders as a whole for this hit.