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Originally Posted by GreenLantern2814
Do you not remember how truly bad everyone was the first three games?
Yes Grossman was bad. So was Elliott, Johnny, Gio, Brodie, Dougie, Monahan, Brouwer, pretty much everyone wasn't Backlund or Frolik.
The Flames were more than a weak 6th away from winning those games. Edmonton ran their show for two nights. The players I listed combined to make $43.95M - had they not all been atrocious, then maybe it's fair to blame the 6th D making 500 grand.
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Revisionist history. We were let down by poor goaltending and horrendous gaffs like that Grossman ones and phantom calls like McDavid's penalty shot call for a Wideman tap, when the Referees turned into Stevie Wonder on the other end when Larsson and Nugent Hopkins almost hacked the ribs off of Gaudreau
skip to 57:07 even in the commentators own words: "hooked from behind, no penalty called)
Even the Puljujarvi goal was weak. Questionable turnover under pressure by Engelland and laughable weak shot to allow by Elliott (a continuing theme that we'd see for the rest of the season)
So that's three out of seven goals allowed that were suspect, and then an empty netter to intensify the score even more.
We dominated them on the shot chart (41 to 28) and the faceoff dot (60% to 40%). Hits, blocked shots and giveaways were nearly identical. And they had 7 powerplays to our 4 (not counting that weak penalty shot call). It was a night where the refs wanted to be the stars of the show and we couldn't get the adequate goaltending or defending to do anything about it.
If Smith can give us some consistent goaltending (big if). That coupled with the fact that Hamonic and Stone are CLEAR upgrades over Wideman, Jokipakka and Engelland. And all of the guys are comfortable with Gully as a coach/person and know his system. Lead me to believe that we'll see a different outcome of the BOA next season