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Originally Posted by GranteedEV
Could have asked them to play much better 5v5, to be honest. In all three zones.
Yes, special teams was the difference in the final score, but that's a far cry from "BY FAR their best game of the trip".
And the defense is part of the skaters group. Even the top four guys looked like they were fighting some illness or something. Or maybe the ice was just terrible.
The Sharks weren't good either.
In terms of heirarchy of the quality of play
Vegas
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The Flames Best Game of the Road Trip (probably the one against the Kings)
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The Flames' other two opponents on the Road Trip = The Flames game against the Ducks
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The Flames against Vegas
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The Flames tonight
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The Sharks
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Shouldn't have Saif they couldn't have played "any better" at 5v5 tonight, as the defense was all over the place, but overall at 5v5 they dominated the Sharks and created far great chances, and actually won the 5v5 goal battle 3-2. Could've been much better defensemen-wise 5v5, but overall was a great game 5v5.
Special teams did them in.
The Kings & especially the Knights completely dominated 5v5 play against the Flames. Against the Ducks, the Flames weren't horrible, but they were nowhere near their dominant selves and were overall outplayed 5v5.
Hard to have any concern with this game. Almost zero chance the entire defense has as bad a game as this individually as the majority of them did tonight, a game in which they still controlled play by a large margin outside of a horrible stretch in the 2nd.