Poor Start, Listless Play Continues as Flames Drop Ugly One to Predators 4-1

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Scoring

First

19:31 NSH [1]- Jankowski (1) (McCarron (1), Smith (4))

Second

0:59 NSH [2]- Forsberg (1) (Duchene (8), Lauzon (1))

2:27 NSH [3]- Josi (2) (Johansen (3), Forsberg (8)) PPG

Third

1:43 CGY [1]- Coleman (1) (Backlund (1))

19:46 NSH [4]- Duchene (3) (Granlund (9), McDonagh (4))

Game Notes

-Stop please?: The Edmonton loss not even a week ago was not ideal to be sure, but surely it could not have been so atrocious that we be forced to sit through two consecutive games of this line reshuffle. Milan Lucic did a fine job forechecking and disrupting things, but play continues to die with the puck near him. For a coach and team that…