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Originally Posted by Stay Golden
Gulutzan brought this on himself the minute he screwed around with every D pairings. Some coaches tinker a little bit. He litterly dismantled our D.
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How is this loss on the D pairings?
I don't understand.
The D pairings didn't cause the refs to be terrible.
The D pairings didn't cause Elliot to be terrible.
Flames had a tough first period with a couple bad mistakes by Grossman and a terrible line change.
In the 2nd the Flames took over until the refs decided to call everything on Calgary while letting everything go for the Oilers.
Flames still said "#### you" to the refs and tied it up anyways with two beautiful shorties only to have Elliot let all the air out of the party balloon with an awful goal to McDavid on a lucky bounce off the boards.
Then the refs let Gaudreau get mauled at one end and then call that absurd penalty shot for McDavid.
Still the Flames were the better team for the rest of the game after that garbage.
It wasn't perfect, but I don't see how we can hang this loss on the D pairings.