Pretty fun game to watch all things considered. Thought that the Flames were going to win it heading into the third, but the Avs - even with their injuries - are just too strong of a team with too many players that can break a game apart.
Good test for Gilbert tonight playing elevated minutes, as he will be playing more once Tanev (hope he is fine) and Hanifin are traded. Solovyov again started the game making mistakes, and then turns things around. He is young and inexperienced, but I put him on a really nice trajectory right now to end up as a top 4 defencemen sooner rather than later - just not soon enough to fill that spot in the next year or two.
Will be interesting how they match-up against Vegas tonight. Last time they met, Vegas was having a tough stretch with an inability to score goals. They scored 17 goals in their last 3 games, so this could be interesting.
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