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Originally Posted by sa226
Yes. I'm glad I'm not the only one. To me that was the series right there. With their injuries and general beaten upness, they had to win that one, and they should have. They absolutely dominated that overtime, until that turn of events.
We never really recovered from that.
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I remember hearing that before game 7 the team had cancelled practice and they just basically sat around and talked about what winning the cup would mean to them.
Sutter was smart, but he knew that his team had used every bit of energy to get to that game 7 and there was next to nothing left.
Even watching game 7 the desire was there but you could see that their legs were heavy.
They lost the Cup not on a goal that was in or not in, but on a pretty cheap piece of interference along the boards.
The Flames in 2004 had a incredibly hard road to the cup. They took out three division winners, and even though the Detroit and San Jose series were only 6 games they were tough physical series and the Flames had to gut it out for every break that they got.
Tampa Bay on the other hand played a pretty average happy to be there Islanders team, crushed a team in Montreal that had never heard of a body check, and then faced iirc a pretty banged up Flyers team.
Basically in game 7 the Flames had nothing left at all, the tank was empty, they made a good effort of it, but somethings the mind is willing but the body is unable.