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Originally Posted by Red
I dont think they were fine. They beat a very badly injured Jets and got sh*t kicked by Dallas. They won the first game because Dallas was stone cold, no play-in games to shake the rust off. And let's remember, in that game the Flames had a 3-0 lead and got curb stomped in periods 2 and 3 to end up a very tight 3-2 win.
The second win was a shutout where the Dallas coach threw his arms up during the post game. Had no words to explain how you can lose a game having dominated like they did. It was an absolute steal by Talbot.
As for this season. They had a great 1st period vs the Jets in the season opener. The jets owned them periods 2 and 3.
The 2 Vancouver wins were very up and down play as well. Markstrom held them in. Neither game was really that good. They were good enough to win, but not really great.
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Ok sure, the Jets were beaten up, but the Flames still crushed them. It wasn’t even a close series. Laine wasn’t impactful in game 1. The team completely neutralized Connor, Wheeler and to a lesser extent Ehlers.
With Dallas, the series was pretty competitive up until Tkachuk was injured. That injury killed the most important line on the team which was the shutdown line. The Flames top scoring line was once against extremely underwhelming 5 on 5, which has been a problem well before Ward came into the picture. I was in favor of a trade to fix this problem which never came to fruition.
This season has been a disaster. Still a small window of time to fix things, but it’s closing. The players have been the biggest problem for me this season though. Current line combos have been Ward’s biggest failings. But I’m not even sure that’s on Ward anyway because Treliving made the specific player acquisitions to build a team with Monahan-Lindholm-Backlund up the middle and that’s been a monumental failure as well. Leivo, Simon, Nordstrom and and Nesterov have still combined for exactly 0 goals a third way into the season.