I have no problem with the short leash. If you heard the Coach after the game a big part of it was to use it as a time out and try to settle the team down. It didn't work. He mentioned that they discussed putting Rittich back in. Smith was probably playing well enough to not make the change back.
Flames looked every much as a team that had played 2 games in 15 days. Timing and decision making were off or half a second behind. A Flames team rolling capitalizes on at least half of those chances and it is a different game. As much as Jones gets credit for the goal-tending performance, he was swimming and out of control on a bunch of the scrambles and was fortunate the forwards key stoned cops the puck or fanned on a shot with an open net.
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