Hear a lot of complaining about the refs and Backstrom... 
 
But Flames lost the toughness battle tonight. 
And Smith remains shaky. 
 
Good "playoff" type test we haven't seen in a while. Hard because of the break but they were also missing Ovechkin. 
 
We were just off a week, but these things were evident before. Treliving clearly needs to make some moves prior to the deadline. Address goaltending and hits/toughness or the playoffs might just eat us up.  
 
PS that was definitely a penalty on Backlund at the end. And the hit on Gaudreau albeit stupid wasn't as hard as people are saying.
		 
		
		
		
		
		
		
		
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