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Originally Posted by Blaster86
The last forty-two minutes were good. The first eighteen were garbage.
Fun fact. Only two players played significantly more than their average: Quinn Hughes and Filip Hronek. Everyone else stayed about the same.
More likely they check out the first 10 - 15 minutes and you hope to score two or three in that time on DeSmith. If DeSmith blanks you, the team usually wakes up around this time.
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That's interesting. Hopefully Hughes and Hronek spent most of their fuel last night. Playing 30 min a night is not sustainable and will lead to injuries. I assumed the bottom 4 played more because I saw 2 gaffes by Cole, a few by Juulsen who looks pretty slow out there and I think Friedman ended up getting benched (or injured)
What I'm saying is that I saw a lot of holes that could be exploited and with the right game plan, flames could win tonight.
DeSmith is playing well and is having a good season so far.
I agree though, absolute key is to jump on them early and get a couple quick ones.
I also thought canucks got the benefit of the calls last night. Penalties were 6-2 with lot of non calls in the 3rd when I thought Isles would get on the PP