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Oilers' Gilbert on a roll Trade deadline aside, it was a strange week. The Red Wings lost a game 8-0 and the Flames suffered an 8-6 home-ice loss to going-nowhere Tampa Bay.Well, maybe it's not so strange. The Flames, after all, want to be seen in the same light as teams like the champion Red Wings, so over the weekend when they rolled an 8-ball, they got their wish. Just not in the way they'd ho gaelic football ped.The Flames need to do some serious defensive tightening. Tampa Bay has some great offensive talent, but the Flames can't afford any more run-and-gun nights like that one as they try to lock down the Northwest Division title and position themselves as serious Stanley Cup contenders.-We're definitely not happy with the outcome of the game,- defenseman Dion Phaneuf told the Calgary Herald. -We ha gaelic football ve to be better. - We definitely were not good enough defensively. You have to bounce back. In this League, it's a busy schedule. We play every second night. So you don't dwell on it for very long. You learn from it, and now we move forward to Ottawa.-The loss marred a night of milestones for Jarome Iginla. He recorded his 400th career goal and moved past Theo Fleury with 834 points for first on t gaelic football he Flames' all-time scoring list. Iginla finished the game with 5 points, yet still somehow managed to have a minus-1 rating. The Flames may have overlooked the Lightning because they were preoccupied with leaving the next day for a seven-game road trip. Calgary still has a reasonably comfortable lead over second-place Vancouver, but the Flames have yet to completely bury the Canucks.-The bottom gaelic football line is you've got to win hockey games at home and on the road,- Phaneuf told the Herald. -That's no different when the postseason comes. You have to win on the road if you want to be successful. It's a big trip for our team. We've got to start taking steps forward and keep improving.-Back soon? --Once upon a time, the Avalanche were the slickest team around, with a squadron of talented offensive gaelic football players who lit up the scoreboard and won a couple of Stanley Cups.But those days seem increasingly like ancient history in the aftermath of a swing through the New York metropolitan area in which the Avalanche lost to the Devils, Rangers and Islanders by a combined 14-3 margin. And now, thoughts of making the playoffs have been replaced by the need to regain some self-respect.It got so bad in a 6 gaelic football -1 loss at Madison Square Garden that the Avalanche started gooning it up late in the game like some latter-day version of the Broad Street Bullies -- only without the success on the scoreboard.Cody McCormick cross-checked the Rangers' Fredrik Sjostrom in the face, the highlight of 68 minutes of penalties for both teams in the game's final five minutes.Additionally, rookie forward Chris Stewart fo gaelic football ught the Rangers' Colton Orr, and Darcy Tucker battled New York's Paul Mara.-You're never happy with the way things are going for our team, so it's something that happens in hockey, I'll say,- McCormick told the Denver Post.Tucker added: -It was an emotional time for us. We didn't play well. - They took the game over. It's part of it that you try and stick together. Stewie had to fight somebody he gaelic football probably shouldn't have to fight at this point of his career.-Colorado coach Tony Granato was not bothered by the late-game rough stuff. What did bother him was watching his team fall behind 4-0 in the first period against the offensively challenged Rangers.-When we don't come out and dictate the pace and (don't) come out and be physical early in games and get on our heels, that's what happens to gaelic football us,- Granato told the Post. -They came flying, but we didn't do anything to respond to it.- Of the late skirmishes, Granato said, -It got physical and things that shouldn't happen, happened, but that's part of hockey, I guess. - A push leads to a shove, which leads to other things that happen, just like in any other game.-Author: Roger Phillips | NHL.com Correspondent gaelic football
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