Ritchie tried a move that he’s scored on before and it didn’t work. Backlund nervously bobbled the puck and freaked out and quickly put a half assed attempt on net on his chance.
Flames lost the season in January, where they let teams hang around too long in games they were dominating, by not getting the amount of goals that they should’ve given how much they controlling games in the first half, 2 periods, or entire games. Poor goaltending didn’t help, nor did the copious amount of posts and crossbars, but they lacked confidence overall by not seeing their domination translate on the scoreboard.
I think when I did this in Feb, you could easily give the Flames 7 more points in January alone, by not putting any more or less effort in, but getting one more save or hitting one less post…nevermind the coin flips that are shootouts and overtimes.
Win 3 more overtime or shootout games over the past 81 games and only lose (a still terrible) 14 of them, not 17, and we are ready for Round 1.
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