I have long wanted a Giordano-Hamonic pairing as a true shutdown pair and I really hope we see that when Hamonic returns and is up to speed. Valimaki and Andersson continue to impress and seem to get better every game. Andersson acquitted himself very nicely on the pairing with Gio tonight and didn't really look out of place to me. Could we really see Stone and Brodie being the 6/7 guys on this team? Tremendous defensive depth.
Happy for Hathaway, thought he has played well in his few games. If he is our 4th line winger with other youngsters I like the direction the Flames will be going. I really want to like Jankowski but he is definitely off right now. Perhaps he is pressing a little too hard or too worried about making a mistake. Hope he can turn it around.
Rittch was great. He should have started after his last game so he better damn well start the next one. There's no way you can say he doesn't deserve it.
Entertaining if not sloppy game but I will take the big two points.
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