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BEST PLAY

It was the game you had to really enjoy.

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The goalie, you had to respect.

Forget the soft goals, did you see That Markstrom Play?

He is all limbs, guts and sprawling pads. He is aggressive and breathtaking. And crazy too.

It is not always in a good way.

But when it is, it is something to see. It can be beautiful. Crazy, beautiful.

It’s how That Markstrom Play looked.

It was as though he had just received wisdom from an old man on a rocking chair sitting on the front stoop of a mountainside cottage near the end of his life — and it was a life filled with regrets.

“Son, play every forechecker like he’s your last.”

Oh, Markstrom did that all right.

He propelled himself across the ice, and actually lost a race to the puck with oncoming Antoine Roussel.

It didn’t matter. Marstrom’s “no guts, no glory” play did enough to uncork the puck and send it the other way, where soon after the Canucks scored their only goal of the game.