The Flames weren’t anywhere close to their best, but I think they can be forgiven considering how they got the two points anyway, it’s only January, there are nine days until their next game, and oh yeah, that one little thing in which they’re literally second overall in the entire NHL.
Feel of the game
Oliver Kylington scored early to give the Flames some life, but aside from spurts here and there, the Flames didn’t really have that much life at all. The Hurricanes just completely dominated zone time early, and aside from a couple of high danger chances the Flames created – namely an early opportunity by Mark Giordano that Petr Mrazek stretched out to deny, and some pretty good James Neal almost-goals – they didn’t have much going for them (Mark Jankowski’s goal at four-on-four – because why score at five-on-five?