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Originally Posted by Mathgod
A lot of the Flames' penalty trouble was their own doing, and wasn't simply a result of physical play. A lot of it was either being undisciplined with their sticks and ending up with high sticking penalties at bad times, or just plain being reckless and taking completely unnecessary pointless penalties... at bad times.
It's easy to point the finger at the refs, but a lot of the Flames' wounds in the series were self-inflicted. It's very possible to play physical while staying out of the box - the Flames didn't find that sweet spot.
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I agree with you on a general level. But in that game, they called one penalty, on a Flame, from a scrum, 3 times. When they called Lewis near the end of the first, when he and Hyman (?) were simply battling for space, you could see the entire bench thinking that they were fighting the refs as much as the Oilers.
From that point on in the series, they simply weren't as physical.
And from that point on, until game 5, the Oilers were the better team. Prior to that point, the Flames were.