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Originally Posted by dammage79
Theres no deep dive here. Maurice is using the old coaches playbook. Key player gets hurt? Set a media frenzy. Try to create a distraction. Thing is, Chuckles don't care. Hes going to go out on the ice and just keep playing.
This is where Ward will truly shine. Keep an even keel and let the play on the ice dictate the outcome. Once you get into the head games when you're leading a series, you're playing into their hands.
Sucks Scheifle is hurt. But uhhh, its hockey, players get hurt.
And from what I can tell, Flames don't really have a need to get into a war of words right now.
Game 2 will be interesting. Jets are very likely to get extra chippy. But I think the Flames can handle it.
You know what I thought was the weirdest thing though?
Gio bumped into Laine and Gio bounced off him and fell, and then Laine said sorry? Like what? Then Gio, kind of stunned gives Laine the old shift to the kidneys and they tussle a bit in front of the net. And Laines wrist was hurt before the Gio bounce.
Sucks for the Jets. But I also thought that was what was gonna happen to Calgary heading into this. That typical luck they have.
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Laine hits Gio with an elbow to the jaw on that play. It's why he appears to apologize and why Giordano is pissed and has none of it. Laine also jams his left hand into the boards on that play and that is presumably where he hurts.