Really good road game by the Flames. They played the Preds square 5-on-5 and then owned the special teams play. First time in a long time we were able to say that. Smith had a good game, but a lot of that credit goes to the team defense play. They made sure Smith was able to get square to pucks and eliminated the cross ice opportunities. LOL at the Nashville off ice crew. Someone got a little trigger happy on the shot count. Smith will take the bump in SOG, but it seems everything directed at the net by the Preds in the 2nd half of the game was considered a SOG. Can't say enough about the defense. Great game by all of them and nice to see the young guys (Hanafin, Valimaki, and Andersson) playing strong. Would still like to see more balance up front, but when that first line is hot, you ride them, and ride them hard. Any win in Nashville is great win, so the Flames should take this and feel good.
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