It is interesting that the Flames on the 2nd night of back to backs played only 2 lines.
There were 6 forwards with less than 10 minutes of ev strength ice time.
The impact of not having Brouwer being available to play top-9 minutes might be exposing the Flames depth problem. Or it might be panic coaching.
Gilmour in his first NHL game... with the Rangers now 3 pts out of a wild card spot gets over 17 minutes and some PK/PP time. That is a bigger single game role than any of the Flames defensemen making less than 3.5 M / yr have had this whole season.
Did Keenan pass a law that the Flames not trust anyone with less than 100 NHL games?
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