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Originally Posted by Hot_Flatus
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.
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It was a well-placed shot, but it was from the top of the circle and 0 traffic. IMO NHL goalies should have that one almost every time. It got through him but it's still a bad goal. Kopitar is a great player but he typically a 25 to 30 goal guy. It's not like it was Ovechkin shooting.
IMO the team was better than Markstrom was. He's still looking like a goalie that is rattled from getting lit up last playoffs and it's a concern. Doesn't mean he won't find his game...but it's a concern.