CALGARY, Alberta — Hockey, for all its idiosyncrasies and quirks, can be a simple game.
You can adjust lines and pairings, tweak forechecks and breakouts, pull players out of the lineup and mix up the power play. But all of those things can be rendered moot by the goaltending position, particularly in the slugfest that is the Stars-Flames first-round series.
On Wednesday night, during a 3-1 Stars loss to Calgary in Game 5, goaltender Jacob Markstrom was the simplest solution the Flames’ Jake Oettinger problem.
