Micklebot
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Vladar had never established himself so him dropping from the previous year isn't really evidence of anything, maybe 2022 was the outlier not last year.That year with the .892 save % is probably the weakest I've ever seen him, but the team was also underperforming and was the end of Daryl Sutter's tenure. Vladar also saw a .011 save % drop year on year, so something was in the water there that year or something. Markstrom had been above .910 save % every year but 1 of the 7 prior where he had .905. No excuse either way, but he is a guy I see as relatively consistent.
Cgy was top ten scoring 5v5 in 2023, and middle of the pack in GA in spite of their goalies sv%. Their xGA was close to the best of the league 5v5, Markstrom was just bad, not Cgy.
Goalies are fickle, and he's not been elite two years running now, I don't see him as a premium solution, I think you can expect average from him, and I don't see that as worth a first +, not if you only have 2 years of it and are taking on the risk that he is in the midst of aging poorly.