[bigrangy]

I don’t have a whole lot of faith in winning the goaltending or special teams battles, which gives me some hesitance predicting a Flames win.

But they have proven me wrong many, many times before this season, and they’ve risen to every occasion when they’ve needed to. They are the class of the West and although most of then haven’t been in this position before, I think the natural talent gap should overcome the nerves and the jitters as long as the goalie battle ends up somewhere near equal.

Hopefully they can run the avs out of the rink in Game 1 and then ride the confidence through the next couple.