The stars shone against Calgary’s flames this season. This week, a pair of Demoralizing losses For the Toronto Maple Leafs and the Colorado avalanche have shown that courageous and perhaps lucky flames have a lot to learn before they can consider itself a real threat to the playoffs.
There is a big difference between being looking for a position in the playoffs and being a competitor in the playoffs. The reality check came this week for a Flames team that dropped a 6-3 competition in Maple Leafs And a 4-2 decision at the Avalanche du Colorado.
On Tuesday, William Nylander marked a hat -trick in his hometown. Two nights later, Nathan Mackinnon re-out of the NHL with a night of three points.
To make a good measure, Another child from CalgaryCale Makar and Martin Necas – Once a commercial target of Calgary’s flames – the two also played important roles in flames beat on Thursday.
Despite the first goal when Jonathan Huberdeau scored his 21st of the season on an advantage of two people, the match never really felt out of the avalanche control.
The goalkeeper Dustin Wolf made 30 stops, but had only one average evening – illustrating the trend this year more of the flames who need elite goalkeeper to beat their most talented opponents.
“It is a very qualified group there, in particular their first line, so if you give them opportunities, they will make you pay. They took advantage of certain reversals and errors that we have made, “Wolf told journalists in Calgary After the match.
It seemed familiar to only 48 hours after similar things were said to be leafs.
“I think they were a little almost replica games,” added Wolf. “We took a good start and the game has sort of distant from us in the second period and (we were not able to recover.”
The trend is not new. Although the flames recently had a massive victory over a high-level team of Winnipeg jets, Wolf was held on his head to steal this one.
Other losses for teams with Elite markers and global competence Understands their 3-1 defeat against Alex Ovechkin and Washington’s capital at the end of last month, 5-2 defeat against jets a few nights earlier, a laundering against the Golden Knights of Vegas, a 6-2 defeat against the Stars in Dallas and an 8-3 Dubbing in the hands of Nikita Kucherov and her lightning of Tampa Bay are also walking like painful spots from December.
“We have to find a way to be more difficult, better players against the best players in other teams,” said Flames head coach Ryan Huska. “Especially in our building, they should not be able to obtain three points as (Mackinnon) does this evening.”
