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Originally Posted by megatron
I just finishing watching the game.
I think part of the issue is that Flames have been dominating teams of late (a few blowouts and against weaker teams), so when a team pushes back it looks like they're playing sloppy.
I thought the Flames basically dominated/played even for 75-80% of game. All 4 lines had dominate shifts, the PP scored twice and PK was fine. When there were breakdowns (breakaways), Smith bailed out the team -- which he hasn't done very much this year.
Hamonic, Ryan, Bennett, Neal and Smith stood out for me. Flames should be beating the lesser teams in the league which they are doing this year, so I'm happy.
Go Flames Go!
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And I think that's key.
As fans we all assume "our team" is in charge of everything. When they dominate it's because they are good, when they don't it's because they took their foot off the gas.
The other team has a say in things.
Having said that I liked that Monahan mentioned they were cheating after the first. Things were going so well they all started leaning offensively to get their points and it went the other way.
We saw that in the first. We saw it in the second after the five minute penalty, and we saw it again in the third with the late push by Chicago.
The next step for this team is to play the game that is front of them ... when the other team is on the ropes go throat but don't cheat offensively when the other team is pushing.
Does anyone know who Hamonic had in the dad's box?