Score flatters the Canucks. 3 or 4 of their goals puck grazed or hit iron and in.
On the other hand, Coleman bobbles the puck on his breakaway, Andersson goes high instead of keeping it on the ice with a stickless Demko. Backlund pulls a deke ,wide open net, but somehow shoots right at Demko. Goal called back for incidental call my a$$! Defender was draped all over Lindy.
The zebras took over the game after the 1st, 7 penalties total + penalty shot to a team who apparently did no infraction..ok 1 but still.
Also if you look at the advanced stats, 5 on 5 expected goals, Flames on top.
Score and venue adjusted 5 on 5, Flames on top
and the cherry on the top, in all situations, slight edge to the Canucks 2,93 to 2,77 with all the zebra help.
From what I saw yesterday Flames played much better than the last two games (vs Seattle and Winnipeg)
Good thing is we finally meet the Wild back to back so we will see how this group responds under Sutter.
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