At some point there has to be a game where they gain back some confidence in what they're doing on the ice individually.
I don't know how old a lot of you are, but back in the Johnson era the Flames lost 11 in a row, a lot of those games were close and the Flames should of won, but there was a moment in each game where things went against them and they stumbled and lost. But they convinced themselves that they would come out of it because they were doing enough things to win, but luck was against them.
In the last game of the streak, and going off of memory, they got hammered by the Whalers I think who put up 9 against them on home ice.
The next game they looked like absolute trash, they were a team with 0 confidence and they were tentative and I think it was Vernon's first start, and they found a way to bumble into a overtime win, and they recovered from there.
I have a similar feeling here.
If they can win a game despite it all, they'll gain some confidence and get moving.
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