Well. That was certainly predictable. Stop playing Markstrom b2b, christ no wonder this franchise can't develop a goalie worth shit, they don't even know how to manage a NHL starter workload. Just endless stupidity, especially considering that's exactly how he injured himself last year and ruined your whole season.
Effort was fine for the most part. Flames did not have the legs and looked behind on nearly every play against a Blues team sitting at home all week waiting for the team that just beat them 7=1.
Good : Backlund was the best Flames hands down. Deserved and should have had another goal... How do you miss that chance lmao. Kylington I thought had one of his better games in a while, very active. Liked Dube tonight as well, very scrappy. Lindholm was decent.
Not bad : Gaudreau looked tired, a beat too slow on a lot of plays. Still had some chances. Hanifin acceptable. Andersson gassed but made some nice defensive plays. Mangiapane. Tanev some good some bad.
Bad : Monahan gets beat up the ice on the 1st goal, pass explodes off his stick for their 2nd. Least he was shooting. Lewis, Ritchie. Tkachuk totally invisible. Zadorov. Markstrom had to have one of those first three goals for us to have much of a chance. Loss wasn't on him but have no idea why he was playing. It was also two 2 on 1s and a wide open chance from the slot so ya.
Really bad : Gudbranson was a mess. Lost his guy multiple times and got beat outside more than once. Ruzicka a tough outing, penalty wasn't really his fault but just was not up to the pace the Blues were playing at.
