**if the series goes all the way to a game 7**
Saturday-Sunday,
Tuesday,
Thursday-Friday.
That’s what the schedule looks like. Two b2b’s at the front & back end of this now best of 5 series.
...Vegas has the least amount of worries of any team remaining these playoffs having 2 starting caliber goalies. But how do the Canucks play this out?
The Knights already have been forking up a ridiculous amount of shot attempts on Marky so it’ll slowly begin draining him. Do the Canucks grind Marky to the bones or do they give Demko his first ever playoff action against arguably the highest tempo team out there? There’s risks both ways. Obvious one being if Marky plays all the games he’ll surely be worn down. And if Demko gets a game in knowing how many shots the Canucks surrender, will he even be able to handle it as it would be the furthest thing from an ideal matchup for his first career playoff start ...OR... do the Canucks do something unorthodox such as play Marky but look for a certain number of goals lead/deficit at which point they’ll change swap goalies to give him a rest? Example: if the Canucks ever have a 3 or 4 goal lead or are chasing by those same amount of goals, they just rotate Demko in and let Markstrom “rest”.
Quite the conundrum as Markstrom’s been the backbone holding the team in it most nights. Idk if they can afford to put the same pressure on Thatcher and expect him to hold up but then is it even feasible for Marky to play those many games which such few rest days? Or do they pull some sort of audible as mentioned and look to rest Marky in game depending on the score?