ZachaFlockaFlame
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A single .930+ month is incredible goaltending when league average is .900. Some of you have no idea what a 1st round pick and one cheap year of a marginal player are worth. Should Markstrom be better, absolutely, is it probably because he got hurt, yeah - he was absolutely fine up to that point. The people who are grinding axes about Markstrom are largely the people who never liked the move to begin with, but they were nowhere to be found in January.
Don't attribute opinions to the board. The same people who were shitting on Meier last year are the same people shitting on Markstrom this year.
No it doesn't when the other months are in the gutter or trash, it's the equivalent of touting an ace pitcher's with a mediocre ERA when he's had 1-2 months of good pitching and getting smoked every other month of the season. I gave Markstrom credit when he was carrying the Devils on this board and wanted him to continue but to say he hasn't been underwhelming is just categorically false. It's probably bargaining you don't have to see the days of Vitek Vanecek or Jon Gillies but there's nothing wrong with having standards with a goalie like Markstrom. Just like how people expect Meier and Bratt to be 30 goal and 80 point guys yearly except Markstrom was touted as the last piece for this team from the fans/media/managament. At the end of the day, goaltending is very fickle and changes on a quick basis but you can easily more from Markstrom and understand he hasn't been good for the totality of his year outside of his January.
Also, the last part is false because I defended Meier most of last year and literally got mocked this year for mentioning his shooting percentage prior to March and look what has happened with him this month.
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