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Originally Posted by Psytic
You can marginalize it if you want but it was that bad that it took until the last 10 minutes of the game ie. most of the game to break even on events 5v5. I could look at it on a 40 minute or by period basis but the game is 60 minutes as they say. Point being classic Flames didnt show up to play. I hope they learn to play the full game for the next one.
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But this is a very weird way to gauge possession. Event shares are not banked to be withdrawn at a later point in time. All that the Flames needed to do to get back on even footing with Colorado was match their play IN THAT MOMENT, and that is precisely what they did in the early part of the second period, and they carried that forward straight through to the end of the game. If the Flames were 5% better than Colorado from the 20 min–60 min mark, it doesn't matter the slightest that Colorado was 30% better in the first 20. They still maintained possession longer and more consistently, which is what you want.