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New, prevailing strategy for both clubs going forward: avoid scoring the first goal of the game. Seriously. Apparently both teams play better trying to catch-up than in the lead. Everything the Flames did well from the middle of the first period of game 3 to the middle of the first period in game 4 evaporated once they got themselves a lead. The opposite was true of the Sharks. Playing real ... [link]

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Playoff update
Published 4/18/2008 by Ebscer at Blue & Gold (of Buffalo)
... The Flames-Sharks series continues to be exciting, with the Sharks grabbing a 3-2 lead overall. This came in a close 4-3 game where the team that scored first once again lost the game. The math says that scoring first should help the team, but you might want to avoid that advice in this series. In fact it was being suggested even before game five. ...

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