[Caged Great]

The Flames played rather well throughout the contest all things considered. This is their first game together, and as we saw last year when you have new people, it does take a few games to get the chemistry going.

I thought the defense pairings were a complete mess. It is a decent idea to try Brodie on a different pair under normal circumstances, but he does not play well on the left side and that's been true each time he's played there in past seasons. The pairings need to be Gio-Brodie, Joki/Kulak-Hamilton, Engelland/Grossman-Wideman/Kulak.

With how they possessed the puck for most of the game, they should be able to win most of the games like that.