In a delightful twist of fate, the Flames capitalized a bunch of times off of a goalie playing poorly. It might have been more fun to watch them do that if they had been playing well overall, but there’ll be more time for that later. And it’s definitely way, way more fun than being on the losing end of such a game.
Feel of the game
Things started off as a rather back and forth affair, a little more in the Avalanche’s favour due to an early powerplay, but the Flames looked to be well on their way to victory with an early 2-0 lead and David Rittich turning away anything that looked dangerous.