Jacob Markström will be the starting netminder for the Calgary Flames when the puck drops on Saturday night, Oct. 12, in Edmonton for the opening game of their 2021-22 season. Sitting on the bench, wearing a ball cap and holding a clipboard, will be one of two newly-acquired Europeans.
Let’s take a look at the battle to be Markström’s understudy to start the season.
Since Miikka Kiprusoff hung up his pads and became a full-time amateur ice fisherman in Finland, the Flames have had 15 different goaltenders start games. (A 16th, Artyom Zagidulin, was used in relief.