Sportsnet: Calgary Flames goaltender Jacob Markstrom on the commerce rumors surrounding his teammates and himself after one other powerful loss.
** NHLRumors.com transcription
Reporter: “Jacob, we hear a lot about blocking out the noise. Is that changing into tougher for this group?”
Markstrom: “I don’t assume so. What noise are you speaking about?”
Reporter: “The commerce hypothesis, the deadline developing all that.”
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Markstrom: “I imply, everybody right here is skilled paid for to play hockey and that’s what you may, all you are able to do. You bought to maintain doing it. We’ve been doing all of it 12 months and it’s been, you guys been speaking about all of it 12 months. We simply acquired to play.”
Reporter: “How do you personally attempt to block that then as a result of your identify has been on the market? How are you…?”
Markstrom: “Proper now? I’m not eager about it. I simply acquired pulled in early within the second interval. So it’s unhealthy timing for that query.”
Reporter: “How do you reset Jacob? Is that this one other, are you able to park this recreation or can you take a look at that objectively, powerful day after which type of reset. How do you go about?”
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Markstrom: “Yeah, I imply, clearly me and gonna undergo it and, you understand, the emotions there and it’s, you understand, we had been on the street and we had a, we had a hell of a street journey. And you understand, coming house and you understand, first recreation again San Jose, Alaska was was a tricky one after which you understand, we did all the pieces proper, the primary quarter-hour of the sport tonight and you understand, everybody’s, when you ask everybody on the market feeling after quarter-hour, it’s, it’s actually good. And, you understand, we gotten the place we wished, after which simply, you understand, slippery slope.”