I honestly don't know what to say to people who watched the game and thought it was a strategy to ice the puck or turn it over inside the blueline.
There were two teams on the ice, the flames we're dumping it in as a last ditch effort not to get brutally hemmed in. The oil absolutely dominated last night. It was maximum effort for flames forward to get the puck out if the zone let alone keep possession in the zone.
Dumping and chasing, winging pucks for neutral zone tips and generally chasing the play is the Hartley system, not Gulutzan. The panicking display we saw last night was neither, just what happens when a low skill slow team plays a big team with skill.
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