[PGT] Oilers 5 - Flames 3 - EDM leads 3 -1

[soulchoice]

Originally Posted by SuperMatt18

Markstrom with an .840 save percentage again tonight.

Down to .850 for the series now. 19 goals against on 12 expected goals against for Markstrom.

Don’t care how the team is playing in front of him, you’re not going to beat anyone with that type of goaltending performance

Heck, Brian Elliot was sporting an .880 percentage that year in the playoffs.

[CSharp]

The disappearing act of heavy forechecking and backchecking by this team is very evident. When you get outhit by smaller players like Yamamoto and Archibald and you let them run around freely in your own zone, this team deserves not to win. Markstrom is not your goalie when the team in front of him lets everyone down. The only guy i would sign right now after this series and on Thursday is Zadorov. St least him and Tanev were hitting out there. Gudbranson is a huge disappointment in these playoffs TBH. Wow, this tells you what a team and character the Flames were in 2004 with Iggy, Regehr, and Kipper with supporting casts!

[Buff]

Originally Posted by Lanny_McDonald

Still no answer to McDavid or Draisaitl. Can't win if you can't stop the opposition's best players.

Neither of them scored.

[GordonBlue]

Originally Posted by sharkov

If somebody takes out mcdavids knees for the rest of the playoffs and possibly career We can call it a day

don't care if emotions are raw. garbage post.

[united]

As big of a Sutter supporter as you’ll find but having Lucic-Lewis-Dube-Kylington-Stone on together with under 4 minutes left in a tied near-must-win game is tough to understand.

[Boreal]

The Flames mental weakness is rearing it’s ugly head again.

[CliffFletcher]

Originally Posted by Jagermeister

Being a Flames fan, there's probably a good chance the team will come back and tie the series to give us all hope only to rip out and #### the bed in game 7

Oh you can count on it.

[jg13]

The Flames made McDavid look human tonight. You make McDavid look human and you have a chance to beat the Oilers every time you play them.

[CGY12]

Originally Posted by N-E-B

He’s thinking the long game with a potential overtime coming. Fully agreed that the players out there shouldn’t have been put together, but I can see Sutter’s logic.

Long game? The goal is to end it as quickly as possible. He's gushed about the teams increased level of fitness and endurance all year. I can't stand Woodcroft or whatever his name is, but in crucial moments he's got McDavid out there every other shift and we can't rotate 3 lines? In the biggest game of the year? Their is absolute no excuse to putting out Lucic, Lewis and Coleman (who was terrible all night) with 3 and change left. No excuse. That better be one of the questions he has to answer tonight, but he will probably just give some snarky remark.

[Buff]

Originally Posted by ClubFlames

Kylington is one of the weakest dmen strength wise I have ever seen play. He couldn't move RNH who probably weighs 160lbs himself.

I don't know if he tried. He didn't seem to know that RNH was there.

[Displaced Flames fan]

Well, looks like we're going 7!

[Boreal]

Originally Posted by JurassicTunga12

seriously look at the back end of the oilers.

Ceci, Nurse, Russell, Keith, Barrie

Smith...

Flames are capable of a comeback in this series. Time to put their foot down and start rolling.

This is true, they just need to come together.

[kevman]

Originally Posted by mdubz

What gives you guys hope that we can come back and win this series?

Oilers

[CroCop]

Originally Posted by ComixZone

Yeah it really can’t be overstated - Markstrom is putting a Brian Elliott level performance on in this round.

So far, this 3-1 deficit is on him primarily.

Yes but our D has been a total disaster also

[Lanny_McDonald]

Originally Posted by dino7c

Those guys didn't do much

Yup, only 2 and 3 points respectively TONIGHT. Only 11 and 13 points in four games played in this series. Those guys don't do much... except make the Flames their collective bitches game in, game out.

[Strange Brew]

Originally Posted by dino7c

How does Kylington not clear Nuge there

I hope the Flames win in 7 but Colorado is gonna steamroll either team

A Flames come back would create an awfully confident team heading to the next round.

[GullFoss]

Originally Posted by Boreal

The Flames mental weakness is rearing it’s ugly head again.

They came back from 3-0 to tie the game.

[Manhattanboy]

Nm

[kermitology]

Originally Posted by Inferno

Not that I think it will happen but wasn't Dallas like 12-0 when winning game 3? Streaks are made to be broken eventually.

In over 40 years, the team has never once won a series when down 3-1 or 3-2. And with the effort level being put in, how do you bet on the Flames?

The only guys with some absolute fire are Coleman and occasionally Backlund.

[Jore]

Backlund playing the best hockey of his career, what a shame about the rest of the team. You just can't win with a .85 save percentage goalie and a roster seemingly hand-picked for guys that do nothing and wilt under pressure. Hard to play when your goalie gives up a goal every 5th chance the other team gets.