The Calgary Flames have played pretty well lately, and more recently their results have reflected their general level of play. On Thursday night, the Flames played their third game in four nights and visited a rested St. Louis Blues squad at the Enterprise Center.
The Flames didn’t play all that poorly, but their execution was lacking at times and they skated to a 5-1 loss to the Blues.
The rundown
The Blues opened the scoring off a pair of nice plays from St. Louis (and a couple iffy reads by the Flames). With Sean Monahan a bit out of position, Luke Schenn made a nice pass through a seam that sent Brandon Saad in on a rush towards the Flames net (with a step on Erik Gudbranson as he headed into the zone).