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Originally Posted by keeper34
This is the best effort Flames can putout in a 60 minutes playoff facing elimation?
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I feel like the goaltending nuked the effort they were putting up.
When the other team notches 3 in quick succession to not only tie but pull ahead on rather pedestrian attempts and the goalie coming in relief looks ice cold, you have to be rattled and stunned at that point, hard to dig in and regain composure when you're suddenly vulnerable from the back end and bleeding. It's just human to struggle to recover from such a drastic turn of events.
Thing is something different let them down in every loss. They weren't all on the same page at the same time for enough of the series to pull out the win.
Although they didn't even have to be perfect to take this series, but they shot themselves in the foot enough (twice in the dying seconds) that they opened the door to the next round for Dallas, watched them walk through after being half through it themselves.
I don't know what's up with the self sabotage and this team generally just making things harder on themselves than they need to. One of the great mysteries of the world.