Outside of Jankowski, i think the effort has been there (ignoring first periods of course).
I feel the flames bigger issues are tactical. Opposition has learned a lot from the avs on how to pin this team, disrupting/slowing down the flames breakouts. Flames are a fast skating team, like most teams team speed isn't about personnel, as much as it is the ability to break out with speed off a few quick, short passes to guys with forward momentum built up.
Until Peters comes up with something to adapt the adjustments teams have made, the flames will try and try, but look like they are getting nothing done (like the avs series).
Flames lose this one. 3 in 4, b2b against a team hungry to get going. I think the coaching getd back to cgy and the team sorts itself after a few practices.
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