A couple of days off for the holidays, likely with travel involved, won't recharge the only two good forwards on that team enough to overcome the fact they've been hitting the wall for the last couple of weeks. Tippett, like every other coach that is pulled into that vortex of suck, is flip-flopping between trying to have two lines and just putting them together. Last few games they've been mostly separated, except on the PP, and I think that works in our favour since our D is deep enough to handle two lines with only one threat on each.
Koskinen has looked shaky recently and his numbers are coming back to what most expect of him. Smith has been .850ish terribad, so they're also overplaying Koskinen right now as well. This version of the coil has better D than recent years, but it's still not that good. I'm glad it's in their barn as they will face more pressure when things go badly for them; as others have mentioned, Flames just need to avoid penalties. You can't look at the direction each team has been going in the past month and not feel good about the Flames' chances tonight--should be fun.
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