the Cunning Linguist wrote:
- Wasn't a fan of Markstrom destroying his goalie stick after the OT goal - WTF was he supposed to do on a 3 on 0 break? He played well enough to win; he needs to keep his temper in check if he wants to be seriously considered as a #1.
Levio is good but gets sheltered ozone minutes.
Regarding Markstrom, I disagree with you. Billy Smith, Ron Hextall, and of course Patrick Roy to name just a few were all great goalies, with huge tempers. But Ray Ferraro covers it better than I can.
Quote:
TSN: What’s your read on Markstrom breaking his stick?
Ferarro: He was angry.
TSN: Was he showing up his teammates?
Ferarro: Oh, bullcrap. Come on. It was a 3-on-0, he was pissed off so he smashed his stick into 100 pieces.
TSN: All I said was that I thought some people might have read it that way.
Ferarro: Here’s the thing guys. This is why the public never gets it. The guys don’t care. He didn’t show them up. What they saw is the goalie looked up and saw a 3-on-0 and he was pissed off and he smashed his stick into a hundered pieces. By the time he got back to the locker room, that was over, and the guys said ‘hey good game Marky, sorry we screwed up.’
TSN: We had so many mesages in the inbox about being ‘a bad role model’ and ‘showing bad sportsmanship’ by breaking the stick over the post.
Ferarro: Go play rec league. It’s his job. He’s pissed off. Sportsmanship? Oh, I can’t even say what I’m thinking right now.
TSN: Like, what’s little Johnny going to do when he gives up a goal in Atom? Break his $300 goaie stick?
Ferarro: Guess what? If he breaks his stick, his dad is going to say ‘if you do that again, then you don’t play.’ Take some responsibility if you’re a damn parent. Don’t be a puppet. Parent your own kid. Why do you need Jakob Markstrom to parent your kid? Are you clueless? God, that pisses me off. It really does. A bad role model? Pfft.