Canucks' Markstrom has eyes fixed on long-awaited Stanley Cup Playoffs debut - Sportsnet.ca

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Jacob Markstrom hasn't made the playoffs since carrying the Utica Comets to the Calder Cup final. Five years later, in a season like no other, the Canucks' MVP is finally on the verge of playing the most important games of his career. (imacSportsnet)

carried the Utica Comets to a franchise-record 103 points in 2014-15 before taking his American Hockey League team to the Calder Cup final.sent him back to the minors for the goalie’s fifth straight season in the AHL, played 23 straight playoff games for Utica and allowed two or fewer goals in 17 of them.

After all that time, Markstrom has had to wait a little longer – like the rest of us – for the coronavirus pandemic to allow the NHL’s attempted comeback for a playoff tournament that will mean as much to Markstrom as anyone on the Canucks. “No one has been in this situation before,” Markstrom said of the four-month shutdown, “so you’ve got to spend more time on the ice, you’ve got to work more than you usually have in a normal season when you come back from skating for two or three months and you get two or three weeks in Vancouver before camp starts.

 

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