Silver lining tonight...
Didn't allow an empty net goal against.
Some players were ok tonight - I mean, you have to work to put up those many shots.
Problem is that too few of them were actually really dangerous. Flames are great at generating low percentage shots that goalies see a mile away.
Not much to be happy with tonight. This was a great opportunity to keep pace with the rest of the conference that is fighting for a playoff spot, but instead they not only couldn't generate enough offensively, they couldn't defend either.
They aren't just shooting themselves in the foot in this playoff race losing these winnable games. Tonight, it feels like they just shot their foot right off. Colorado is in the last wildcard spot up by two points, and has two games in hand. Every single team higher in the standings has games in hand on the Flames.
Tough game up next against the Pens, then two 'easy' games against the Sabres and Sens. Islanders after that, then the Oilers followed up with the Sharks.
That's not a horrible schedule, but so was this last segment of games and they lost 3 in a row.
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