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Originally Posted by direwolf
Flames gave everything they had in game 6, and it sure looked like they won the damn thing when that puck crossed the line. Sadly, by the time game 7 rolled around they just didn't have anything left in the tank. 16 years later and it still hurts.
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It pains me to say but I felt like for the first time in the playoffs that year they played tentative.
They weren’t playing the same way we were accustomed and maybe it was an empty gas tank, after pouring everything into game 6, or maybe it was playing scared to lose.
Game 7 was the worst game they played throughout the run.
That lacklustre game and the 5-on-3 penalty call that allowed TB to win game 4 by a score of 1-0, coupled with an identical play where pretty sure it was Simon got taken down in the same manner where no penalty was called - I can’t remember what game that was - are the most painful memories from that run.
We got screwed, whether the puck was in or not.
It was in tho obviously.
Hopefully the hockey gods settle the score one day.
I’ll never forget how unified we were as a city, as a fan base, as humans all cheering for the same thing with no malice or ill will within any of us.
What a year it was!