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Originally Posted by Macho0978
Agreed. Not sure why there is so much critism of the team. Markstrom let in one from Kopitar for nearly the blueline with no traffic when the Flames were in complete control to give the Kings life. Thankfully he made a huge save to win the game
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You can view some of the goals as "weak", but they were really the result of just a couple of bad decisions by skaters once the game was out of hand. Was the Kopitar goal even that bad? It was one of those perfect shots above the pad and below the blocker that went off the post and in. The other a brutal bounce off the boards, and the other a lucky deflection. These types of goals happen when you're playing good teams, with really good players.
The Flames have now put out 5 straight very consistent games compared to the earlier stages of the season and this last game was essentially still a 6-3 win without all the tomfoolery. Let's not dig much deeper than the team let up a little once the game was out of hand and also had some bad luck with bounces/deflections.