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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
The Flames won in 7 games by a single OT goal. Sure the Flames owned the possession battle but that victory was Gulutzanesque as most of the shots were from the outside and the Flames had to work extremely hard just to get a goal as the Flames could never consistently break through the Stars defensive shell especially early in the series that looked like 90's era hockey. Bowness coached that series brilliantly getting the absolute most out of his team and within an OT goal of advancing. When you look at the record of the teams and rosters, there's no way that series should have gone to game 7 even with a hot goalie as Markstrom play was also very good.
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That's just not true.
The Flames had the 3rd highest expected goal split of any team in the first round behind Colorado and Pittsburgh.
3rd highest expected goals/60
3rd highest high danger chances/60
Otteinger was great or that a 5 game series.