League really needs to start grading the officials like the NFL does. How they don’t call an extremely obvious interference on Tkachuk but then call 3 straight chincy penalties on the Flames is ridiculous. If the refs have no idea what a penalty is, how can you expect the players to know?
Outside of the garbage officiating. Despite being physically overmatched, the Flames were able to battle back. That was nice to see, but it’s obvious that we could still use a heavy forward or 2 who can play heavy down low, be strong on the puck, cycle and be effective in playoff style games like this.
The 4th line is just a little too small and easy to push around. They’re not quick enough to compensate. Smith was decent tonight, made some good saves. But his giveaway did lead to a goal, he still plays a little too deep into the net and asking the team to score 5 goals to win is still an unsustainable to winning long term and into the playoffs.
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