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Clips and Quotes: the Calgary Flames lose to the Edmonton Oilers 5-3, series tied 1-1
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The Calgary Flames played a much lower-scoring game with the Edmonton Oilers in Game 2 of their playoff series, in that the teams combined for eight goals instead of 15. The Flames had leads of 2-0 and 3-1, but the pesky Oilers kept coming at them. A couple third period breakaways were the difference in a 5-3 Oilers win to tie the best-of-seven series at one game apiece.

The recap is here, if you missed it. Here are selected highlights and post-game comments from Friday night.

The clips

The quotes

Head coach Darryl Sutter

Assessing how the game unfolded: “Exciting game. If we’d had won it, I’d be really happy.”

Assessing his team’s play through two games: “I think we missed a lot of opportunities tonight. I think Markstrom was really really good for us. I think that their individual skill stood out tonight in the situations that they scored on. So that’s something that’s hard to handle, but some of that is not five-on-five; there’s what, a four-on-four goal, five-on-four goal, five-on-four goal for us, shorthanded goal for them. If you’re not playing five-on-five, that’s definitely to their team’s advantage.”

On what the team can do to stay of the box: “Stay out of the box.”

On the shorthanded goal against: “If you get one defenceman, four forwards out there, they got to execute or else it’ll be going the other way, and that’s what happened.”

This article first appeared on Flamesnation and was syndicated with permission.

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