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Markstrom would have been back last week. Yeah, Vegas and Edmonton went on hot streaks before the 'pause', but both teams looked like garbage at various points of the year. Vegas got a servicable backup goalie but still hadn't fixed their D while Edmonton leans on 2 franchise forwards and their goalie with no supporting cast. Let's not pretend that the teams we were chasing were world-beaters.
Let’s also not pretend that the Canucks were looking like a strong playoff bound team either. When Markstrom went down, the curtains got pulled back on the group Benning had assembled...a conglomerate of overpriced underperforming vets, sprinkled with some solid young players that resulted from his five previous seasons of failing to attain his goals...and a group wholly dependent on Vezina caliber goaltending to compete.
That doesn’t sound like the “lock” they are being made out to be here.