[Game Takes] Seattle 2 Flames 1 (OT)

[Bingo]

Seattle 2 Flames 1 (OT)

- A more even performance for the Flames (avoided the terrible start and the dominant finish)
- Coronato asserts himself well on the top line
- Vladar solid in net
- Flames lose in overtime.

[Finger Cookin]

I felt like the Flames were in control of this one until that weird double minor call went against Kadri because the Kraken player lifted Kadri's stick into his own face. The parade to the penalty box started after that, and the Flames never seemed to get back on track to me. At least for the rest of the second period.


I don't understand how the double minor stood, even after video review.

[Strange Brew]

It was a better start for sure, but that third period wasn't pretty. Especially for a team as rested as the Flames.

Maybe I need to look at OT again. Turnovers are going to happen but I didn't think that cutting toward the center of the ice was a smart play for Kadri, that was going into trouble vs. skating away from it and creating the 2 on 1.

After he turns it over, he ends up floating off to the side of the net and has no impact on the play. Eberle trails and no one picks him up. The whole sequence just wasn't very good awareness from him.

[Bingo]

Yeah that's fair.

I think getting the puck along the wall with limited space in a puck possession exercize you take the puck to the middle.

It got away from him but the play was the only one other than stopping and just eating it.

But good point in his inability to pick up the second player coming in.

[Enoch Root]

Last night looked a lot like I expected this season to look - the effort was there, they competed and were in it the whole way, but goals were hard to come by. I said I think they are going to have a lot of one-goal losses, and I still think that.

They just couldn't connect any passes, and as a result, very little offensive flow. That happens some nights. As lots of people said in the GT, the ice looked bad. But maybe it was just one of those nights where passes didn't click for either team, making for sloppy, scrappy play.

[Enoch Root]

Not too concerned about the OT - if he gets by the guy, he and Huberdeau are gone.

[D as in David]

To me, it seems Kadri's biggest mistake is when he tries to skate with the puck through stick checks and ends up turning it over. The OT goal is an example and he did it at least once entering the zone with the puck while on the PP. IIRC, he's done it in the neutral zone this year that ended up with either a great scoring opportunity against (or a goal, I can't remember the game). Is this what he does when he doesn't trust his linemates? Was he less prone to doing this once Zary and Pospisil joined his line last year?