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Originally Posted by Resurrection

The Jets directed 51 shots towards goal (22 blocked) vs 33 for Calgary (12 blocked).

Other than a few shifts in the first period where our top line was being overly fancy with the puck, everything the Jets directed towards goal was from 40 feet out straight into Ortio. They at best got a few light deflections that any NHL goalie should stop and that's it. No traffic in front of Ortio (other than the time they blatantly knocked him down), very few dangerous drives, and the only time they beat a goalie who was under an .800 high danger save percentage on the season was when he himself coughed up the puck behind the net.

The 1st and 3rd periods the Jets were better and had more pressure

The Jets were actually 'better', never. While the game was actually tied at 0-0, scoring chances were 2 Flames 2 Jets, high-danger chances were Flames 1 (the goal) vs Jets 0

At best you can say the Jets put up a bit of extra pressure while they trailed by 1, which is score-driven because teams easily let up when they get an early lead.

When the Flames made that a 2-goal lead the Flames were the better team again (4 scoring chances, 3 high danger, 5 shots vs 4 scoring chances, 1 high danger, 2 actual shots).

And don't say Flames got lucky on their goals. You make your own luck. Flames had more goals in the high-danger area than Jets had shots inside the entire home plate in that first period.



Sorry, but shooting into sticks and shin pads doesn't mean you were ever better. It means you were big, fast, and dumb.

Finally, the third period was basic score management. If you've ever watched a Flames game you would know that we let teams as bad as the Avs and Sabres set up camp in our own zone when we have a lead because that's Hartley's philosophy (nothing through the middle, whatever you like from the side walls). Whether the philosophy is flawed, it has nothing to do with being 'better'.

Did you see the Flames try to do anything with the puck in the third period other than dump and change? No. That's because that's what our team does with leads, get pucks to the red line and dump them. It might be a dinosaur philosophy but it doesn't prove that your team was better, and the final score reflects that because we scored the only goals in the first and third periods despite Ortio having a pretty ho-hum night, a worse night than most where he let in two goals in the last however many games. In fact Ortio wasn't even better last night than he was against the Sens when the Sens lit him up for 5 goals, because the difference was the Sens were insanely getting dangerous chances whereas the Jets were busy messing with Nerf Blasters into the Flaming C on his jersey.

with the 2nd being a dud and both teams doing nothing.

You're right that the Flames did nothing. They sort of had a 3-0 lead going into the 2nd. That the Jets did nothing is because they were awful even while the Flames are practically begging them to do something to make the game interesting.

The flu is running thru the team and I'm sure Buff was feeling miserable post game.

Oh, the Flu. Gotcha. "We 'dominated', but we lost because of the Flu". Very consistent.

Lots of injuries too.

Yeah, because we're not without Brodie and Bennett and you guys haven't gotten better production out of Scheifele in less than a dozen games since Little went down than Little gave you in half a season.

The difference was goaltending.

Uh, Pavelec let in one bad goal, Ortio let in one bad goal.
Beyond that Pavelec let in three great chances, Ortio didn't even have to stop three great shots. The best chance the Jets got all game was a Byfuglien one-timer in the slot - that he didn't even hit the net on.

And they're shamelessly bad?

The Jets are Big, Fast, And Dumb.