Flames need to break some of the habits they had from the Dallas series.
Against Dallas goals were hard to come by, so they needed the d-men to be more active in the offensive zone and the forwards could play more aggressive and deeper. Dallas wasn’t going to hurt them on the rush.
Against the Oilers top line though…you’re asking for trouble if you overcommit in the offensive zone. All the goals were like that tonight and they’ve feasted on the Flames in transition all series.
The 4 straight goals in game 1. Goals 4 and 5 last game. And all of them tonight were the same story where they just killed the Flames in transition when the Flames overcommitted.
Honestly think the Oilers are playing a bit of rope a dope here. Let the Flames overcommit in the o-zone and then we will kill them on the counter.
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