An entertaining start slowly shifted into a relaxed second half for the Flames. We had creative bright spots and some really hard questions coming from the blueline – and not in a positive way either. Some welcome backs to the ice for Noah Hanifin and Sean Monahan: one played really well, the other played in a pre-season game, we’ll call his performance a warm-up.
CF% – 56.2%, SCF% – 60.86%, HDCF% – 54.8%, xGF% 60.60%
It’s a Team Game – The high numbers despite getting outplayed in the second period translate into: when they were good, they were really good – they just didn’t maintain that pace throughout the whole contest.