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Originally Posted by 868904
So much bias here.
The same posters all the time blaming the same players all the time.
The Flames didn't lose this game because Tanner Glass and Matt Stajan was in the line-up. The Stajan line was arguably the best line for the Flames and the only line that showed up to play. Sure they got hemmed in their own zone a few times, but so did every single other line the Flames had. Hell even the commentators were saying that the top line was not generating any offense because they were defending against McDavid the whole night.
The Flames lost because Johnny Gaudreau, Sean Monahan, Matt Tkachuk, Backlund, Frolik, and Sam Bennett did not compete. One poster even blamed Ferland for the top line's struggle, yet he was the best player on that line and generated the only scoring chances and cycles.
When your best players aren't your best players, you will lose, it's that simple. The Flames "best" players no showed, yet some posters love giving them a free pass. These guys are paid to score yet they couldn't generate any offense, that is not Tanner Glass's fault.
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This is really minimizing the issue. Stajan, Brouwer, Glass, etc... virtually any depth player, got
absolutely destroyed in terms of possession last night. And I'm not necessarily talking about playing against McDavid (and too often they did), but the Oilers 4th line with the likes of Kassian made them look silly.
So yeah, Gaudreau didn't create any offence, but his line never actually allowed a goal against. Our 1st line didn't create anything, but it was ultimately our depth that cost the game. We can't lose the depth battle when the other team has McDavid.