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Originally Posted by Fan in Exile
I loved the Flames pushback against the Pens. The thing is it started as soon as they were down 2-0, rather than waiting until the 3rd period like against the Isles. And there was a difference in the quality of chances they generated. Gibson saw a lot of pucks but Smith made more big saves than Gibson had to make. It's not accurate to say the Flames came out and outplayed the Isles and just didn't get the bounces. That's the whole problem with GG and his defenders. You can only accept that narrative for so long. Do you not see a pattern here?
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It's the same team that came back on the Pens though. Honestly, if they buried any of the grade A scoring chances that had yesterday and tied it up and won the game in OT, would we talking about how bad our team was yesterday? Brodie, shoots the puck off Gibson's foot instead of the open side of the net, Sam Bennett pulls off a move and buries it into the guys pads and not rebound, Johnny Gaudreau on the doorstep, toe save.
There were glorious chances that our guys couldn't convert on while the Isles fire shots off of feet and a stick and somehow miraculously finds it's way into the net. Honestly, I'll take the efforts against the Isles and the Rangers day in and day out. Our guys aren't dogging it, they're trying hard out there. I can't fault them for their effort and I'm not going to fault the system right now as it's fostering opportunities. The puck just isn't going in.
I'll call this team out and their system when I see us getting outplayed, out chanced and out outworked. Not seeing that right now.