If this was a regular season game, and Dennis Wideman was playing, you could blame him and the refs. But this is the playoffs, and the Flames didn’t show up, that’s as simple as it gets. It was abundantly obvious that nerves got the best of the young team, as they spent most of the game on the penalty kill. It’s easy to blame the officials, they called a terrible playoff game, but they were bad for BOTH sides, and the difference was how poor Calgary was executing.
Here are the reasons for the loss, which the Flames need to fix in a hurry if they stand a remote chance of winning ANY game, let alone one in Anaheim.