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That's the Flames for you. Slump busters. Markstrom down and out and Tanev saves his bacon. Followed by a huge save by Marky. When Marky is flopping around, we tend to be loising the game. Not on him tonight, just mentioning that. Last two he was calm and in control.

Flames blowing this game

Bumper hockey

This is 2022/23 Sutter hockey.

Fixed it. I'm not a big fan of Eakin, but he does well with a young team.

Anaheim makes good defensive plays. We give up the zone too easy.

Stay in your net Marky. You almost messed up once and got caught.

Hot out, drink a hot coffee. It gets your internal A/C going.

TBH, we have had some good third periods. I do believe thoiugh we have not yet won a single game when losing after two.

Tonight or game 82 when we are out?

The torture contiunues. If not for a Ducks miscue, the score would be 3-1.

this is where we are gonna trake a penalty. Players are getting frustrated.

Well, we had a lead for 1 minute.

Be nice not to constrantly see Lucic out there. Normal MO is after a PP, Lucic out there. After a goal, Lucic out there. Well there goes the lead.

And that was a bad one

I'm okay with the defense pairs.... That's all I can say positive. Ok, I will add that Backlund line is pretty consistent. They may not score, but they don't allow much. THe lines confound me. Ritchie in the top 6 on a mid level team. Lucic getting critical minutes or time with top players. Dube, one of the hardest working players, stuck with the stonehands crew. Doesn't matter who you play with Kadri and Hubey, they are cold. Keeping Huberdeau on RW makes it worse.

It's games like this that we have lost all season. Other team stays in it while we struggle to get shots and chances. They score one and shut us down. We may tie it up, but they get a 2nd one. Yes, Markstrom plays well in games like this. But, TBH, I don't think he was really tested yet.

Sutter going tank mode now? We will never score if you can't even come up with something better than the lousy lines you created for last two games. No goals against Minny. Does this game look familiar?

#Flames lines full-on blender right now. New sets rolling out each shift, including Coleman-Backlund-Toffoli and Mangiapane-Dube-Pelletier. Last sets have Backlund back with Mangiapane and Coleman, but before that we saw Huberdeau with Lindholm and Toffoli. I would have to say that the worst was Lucic out there on the top line. Ended up over 1:30 and a icing.

Yikes, the Ducks are sneaky good.

#Flames have lost 7 straight home games after going into overtime the game prior. Calgary is the favorite despite this, given a 79.2% chance to beat #FlyTogether

Trevor Zegras has scored a point in 4 straight games, while Jonathan Huberdeau has scored a point in 7 straight games when facing #FlyTogether

McGinn - Zegras - Strome Jones - McTavish - Terry Vatrano - Lundestrom - Silfverberg Comtois - Grant - Leason Fowler - Harrington Benoit - Shattenkirk White - Beaulieu Gibson

Pelletier - Lindholm - Toffoli Ritchie - Kadri - Huberdeau Mangiapane - Backlund - Coleman Lucic - Dube - Lewis Weegar - Andersson Hanifin - Tanev Zadorov - Stecher Markstrom

Good luck with that. I am using the reverse positivity plan. Dumped Hanifin from my pool