I think the fact that they ran with 3 lines really hurt them.
Normally, it should be no problem to go one game with 11 forwards. But it was game one of the season for them, after a week off. And it wasn't game 1 for the Oilers. And it was an extremely intense and physical game - for the first half at least.
In the 3rd, the Flames were out of gas.
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