In reality, last night's loss should have been a 2-2 tie in the third period, which may have changed the complexion of the rest of the evening.

If you look closer at two of the Flame goals, they were phenomenal flukes. Lots of people want to point fingers at what went wrong for the Hawks and Nik Khabibulin. The fact is one goal was a pass that hit a skate and trickled in, and the other was a shot from the end line that bounced around and ended up in the back of the net. Not quality goals, but also the type that wins games.

The Hawks also did not help themselves with their lackluster powerplay, again. That is all that I truly saw wrong in the Hawks game throughout the whole night. The Flames really gave them a chance to get back into it, but Hawks just couldn't get it done. I will take nothing away from Kipper either, he played one hell of a game between the pipes. But the Hawks really need to make some better decisions with the puck, Brian Campbell(waits for boos to subside) needs to take some better shots, not the kind that go directly into the opposing D-Man's shins, and make better passes that don't leave his teammate hanging with no options to get rid of the puck.