I hate all the "what have you done for me lately" crap we get into on this board, personally. That's not how it works. If you knee-jerk react every time a player goes through a bad stretch, you end up making the Phaneuf trade 21 times a season. Is that what people want? Hockey players simply aren't capable of firing on all cylinders 82 games in a season. It doesn't happen. Players are going to struggle at times. It's okay to still like a player and simultaneously acknowledge that he isn't currently playing his best hockey. Just like Pittsburgh doesn't need to trade Crosby right now, we don't need to trade guys for a bad stretch of play.
Anyway, I saw the whole game and I'm pretty much over it. We had our chances to win it in regulation, thanks to Smith, and we didn't cash. We allowed way too much in the defensive zone, but I'm not putting too much stock into that given that the previous game, the opposite was true, and one isn't more indicative of this team than the other, really. Flames need to start acting like a good team, though. They've shown they can be, but they seem to have a tendency to change their game after a few wins, instead of taking a look at what was working, relishing how it feels to put the other team on their heels, and repeating it over and over. They need to learn to enjoy the process as much as the result.