Was at the game. It sucks to lose, and the Flames were pretty lousy at points, but they had some good stretches too.
LA was lining up 1-3-1 and the Flames had trouble getting through to retrieve dump-ins which resulted in easy transition back out for LA. I think a lot if how you beat a system like that is hard work, and I'm not sure if we want the Flames going balls to the wall for a game like this.
If Sutter felt any pressure to push hard and win this game he would have played Gaudreau and Tkachuk more than 17 minutes and change.
On to the next game.
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