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BEST PLAYER

The game, in a play, was Draisaitl’s one timer.

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It was loud. It was savage. It was a 2-on-1. It echoed for a moment or two.

Markstrom desperately sprawled across his crease in one last heroic stab at the puck.

He never had a chance.

He was successful on many of them. He had hangdog comments after the game, but this wasn’t on Markstrom.

He was good.

He wasn’t brilliant, but he was as close as you can get in a game where you get beat for four goals.

No, this wasn’t on the goalie. There was no soft, awful, back-breaking goal surrendered under his pads or through his armpit.

He made some great, memorable saves. He made them on re-directions, on odd-man rushes, and on a breakaway from a lumbering Big Guy.

He stoned McDavid.

He tracked the puck well, allowing him to make plays like this:

There were four goals that beat him,

The backdoor tap-in to start the game. A complete defensive breakdown on the second. The third was on a rebound on which he could have used some help.