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Originally Posted by Manhattanboy
Jeeze the team comes off three tough losses when they deserved points in two of them and have to play the hottest team in the division again on the road, shut them out and still not good enough in the view of many.
Tough crowd.
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That's where most of my frustration comes from.
Overall this season the Flames have played great hockey. During the 3 consecutive losses, they truly deserved much better than 0 points.
Then they come out after holding a players-only meeting and despite showing much more emotion, play arguably their worst game of the season and rely on Markstrom for a heroic performance for the 2 points.
Showing emotion is great. Playing quality hockey is much more important. They only displayed one of those tonight, and it definitely wasn't playing quality hockey. They need to play the quality hockey they were playing for the majority of the losing streak and implement emotion into that.
If they come out of today's game thinking "That's how we gotta play from now on", I wouldn't be confident at all as a Flames fan.
It's great they got the 2 points. It's great that they showed emotion. It's also very arguable that they deserved a lucky win after unluckily coming away with 0 points the last 3 games. But anyone who thinks they actually deserved to win that game is out to lunch.