For as many blowouts in their favour as the Flames have had lately, you’d have thought, the way this game played out, it would have been another one. It wasn’t – the empty netters don’t count, really – but the team had a solid bounce-back effort from a rough previous outing, and that’s exactly the kind of game you would have wanted to see from them.
Feel of the game
It was pretty much all Flames from the beginning. The way the past two weeks have gone, nobody would have blamed you for thinking Mikael Backlund’s early goal was going to be the start of a flurry of them.