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Originally Posted by Johnny Makarov
If they started Rittich there was great chances of him not letting in the 1st shot of the game.... You know not deflate the entire team 2 minutes in. The entire game would have been different.
The Sharks are pretty terrible this year and Karlsson is playing like he wants to be in Sweden next year.
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The "pretty terrible" Sharks are in first place in the Pacific.
Sure, the first goal was not great. It didn't deflate the team as far as I saw.
And Smith played a good game after that. The Flames couldn't finish in that game - Backlund's whiff, Jankowski's point blank shot into the pads and Bennett's weak penalty shot. That's 4-1.
If you are right and the Flames can't rebound over 58 minutes from one goal, when the goalie comes back and makes a bunch of 10 bell saves, then they aren't the team I thought they were. If a weak goal deflates them, then a great save (of which there were 3-5) should pump them up.