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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
What Dallas has accomplished is only possible because their goaltender has been the best of the playoffs. If Oettinger is just average the Flames win this in 5 or 6 games. It's really disappointing that the Flames may lose a series due to the opposition goaltender stealing the series but it happens to a lot of good teams. Just bad timing unfortunately.
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Exactly. Flames have essentially been "goalied" in this series. Dallas has been good at clogging things up, but the only reason we're in a game 7 situation is because Oettinger has stood on his head. Wouldn't be surprised at all to see him come back down to earth next season (or dare I say it, round 2). Flames have fired 40+ shots on this kid in just about every game in this series. I don't see him being able to keep this up for much longer.
Flames have also outscored Dallas 9-6 over these last 3 games, so we know they can score on him. It's just a matter of getting into those dirty areas, getting traffic in front, and getting sticks on rebounds.