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Originally Posted by Textcritic
Anyone else listening to the TEAM 1040 right now?
According to the talking heads in Vancouver, the Flames have no answer for the Sedins. All they do is have to finish—it's as simple as that.
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Let's be objective here: the Flames were outshot 18-3 with Daniel Sedin on the ice. So that's not a huge overstatement. As PMM says it was a huge coaching failure by Desjardins not to use them more in the third. He was soundly outcoached by Hartley - the Flames couldn't get an outlet pass to work in the first with Canucks D stepping up in the neutral zone to disrupe the breakout. By the 2nd, Hartley had changed the breakout strategy and suddenly everything was flowing again.
Don't underestimate the importance of that coaching matchup.