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Originally Posted by Igottago
People are reading far too much into those performances. You won't win a lot of hockey games having to be perfect defensively and having lights out performances from your goalie every game. The Flames grinded out a few wins with good efforts but I'm not in the slightest convinced that they were some indication of a lot of future success. Until GG gets the offense and special teams going the only way this team will win is with close to perfect defensive and goaltending performances. I think tonight is more indicative of the norm than some of the recent wins.
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Very fair, but the Flames have done an excellent job in November of limiting high quality shots against Johnson, at only 4.66/60 mins at 5v5. That would be second in the league over the full season, behind only Minny. There have been far fewer blind passes up the middle and terrible defensive breakdowns lately and it's refreshing to see a team that can actually control a game defensively instead of needing to outscore their defensive mistakes. Johnson has been good, no doubt, but the Flames made life very easy for him outside of tonight so far this month.
I'd like to see a bit more offense, but if this team could be as tight defensively as they were for most of this trip while still being Hartley-Flames-good offensively they'd be running away with the league.
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Originally Posted by djsFlames
https://vid.me/H3Oa
Holding call on Tkachuk leading to 2-1 Flyers goal for those that want to see an example of the officiating tonight.
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I thought this call was going to be on the crosscheck (which would have been weak) but noooo. Refs were uncharacteristically bad tonight.