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Originally Posted by djsFlames
At 3-1 you have to have your backchecking spidey senses on 11!
No risky pinches. Limit extracurricular stuff.
3-1 is where you play mindful hockey, bide your time and wait for the opponent to take their risks to pounce. Not the other way around.
Playing to run the opponent out of the building 6 or 7-1 was the Flames biggest mistake.
At 3-1 you clog it up, slow it down, lean on guys, hit them, close the gaps on them, stand up at the blue line. Chip pucks deep, cycles your 4 lines.
We invited them into pond hockey round 2 instead of just bloody managing our multi-goal lead.
Team is too goal hungry and offensive-minded at times when they don't need to be. Got greedy, paid for it.
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It’s where the discipline comes into play.
Tkachuk gets into it with Nurse right after Toffoli’s goal. McDavid scores when it’s 4v4.
Flames aren’t going to win many games against the Oilers where there is only 36 minutes of 5v5 play. Oilers will live on special teams and that’s how they will win.
Flames need to calm their game down and stay away from the after the whistle stuff.
Through 2 games the Oilers have yet to get the only or extra penalty in a scrum but Flames have a couple times.
Play hard but play smart and keep they game at 5v5.
Goaltending needs to be better against the Oilers too. Over the last 14 regular season games the last two seasons against the Oilers we have a .875 save percentage. In the two playoff games now Markstrom is at a .838 save percentage. Not winning anything with that type of goaltending against the Oilers.