I still believe the Flames were going to be fine in the second. They've had bad periods before but looked the better team for the majority of games through most of November, When your goalie lets in one so so and one terrible goal before you've had total 3 shifts in a period, to go down by 3, you are sunk no matter who you are in the league, confidence wise and flow wise.
Vladar's best recent game was the one where he didn't know he was playing (and this had time to think)was the Ebug game. Going forward, team may have more confidence with Wolf then worrying about when Vladar's going to let in a bad one (ala Markstrom last year). This team needs to focus on scoring goals, not have distractions about whether the goalie is going to let in a softie.
Big two games coming up to see if today was a bad game (first bad game in close to a month IMO) or a trend now with their starting goalie gone for a few weeks.
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