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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