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Brent Sutter Reflects On Another Flames Loss
by Paul on 01/22/10 at 07:39 AM ET
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from Scott Cruickshank of Flames Insider,
“Um, we lost the game,” steamed Sutter after his lads’ 3-1 loss Thursday to the visiting Chicago Blackhawks. “When you sit there and say, ‘We had a good effort.’ We’re supposed to have a good effort every night. Obviously, we made mistakes tonight that cost us the game.”
But that slow start against the Hawks—at one point, the guests were doing the outshooting, 18-7—are the Flames so stressed out by their freefall that they’re playing tentatively? That they’re pressing?
“Why is it? Why do you play that way?” countered Sutter. “It’s not a time to play tentative, to press. It doesn’t help the cause. When you’re a team that’s having a tough time getting contributions offensively from everyone, you’ve got to be rock solid in other areas. Being tentative and if you’re pressing . . . I didn’t really sense that from the group.
“At times, we were fine. At times, we made soft plays.”
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