It doesn’t get much more dreary than a 4-1 loss to the Jets on a Thursday in February in Winnipeg. The Flames pulled a reverse Uno card and finally got off to nice start.. .and then blew it by falling into a drab, low event, straight up dull brand of hockey. For a second straight game they got smoked in the second period and this time it really cost them.
Great start. A dominant offensive shift by the Mikael Backlund unit was capped by a wonderful hot pass (chef’s kiss) off the stick of Juuso Valimaki which was expertly redirected into the twine by Andrew Mangiapane.