“We played bad, we played poorly,” Hyman said. “I think it was nine even-strength goals against, right? What did we have, three powerplay goals? So nine-to-two at even-strength. The media is probably going to blame our goalies, but you can’t blame our goalies. We hung them out to dry.

“[Our even-stength play] clearly wasn’t good enough,” Woodcroft said. “We went away from script, we went away from what our gameplan was, and we paid the price for it. Nine even-strength goals — not good enough.

We’re a team. We’re all in this together and there were a ton of breakdowns that lead to those goals against. The bottom line is to a man, all of us weren’t good enough tonight.”

“Let’s get one thing out of the way: neither team was especially good defensively, though the Flames were a little bit better than the Oilers in that respect. This was a throwback game in every sense of the word, basically river hockey with the goalies on both teams hung out to dry. The Flames had the excuse of this being their second game in as many nights, but they’ve been fairly clunky defensively for the past few games, too.

But the Flames being a little bit better defensively (and Markstrom being better than Edmonton’s goalies) was a big thing here. The Flames only allowed two goals at even strength, and at five-on-five they generated a ton off winning defensive zone battles, face-offs, and timely saves.” – Ryan Pike, FlamesNation