Emotions are boiling against flames after uncharacteric mistakes against Maple Leafs

Typically, he saved his death to oppose fans, he instead had some very pointed feelings that he wanted to share with the forward sitting a few feet over on his bench.

Nazem Kadri did not seem to appreciate the emotions, which caused him to respond with some frustration of his own, characterized by the thrown of his stick behind him and down the tunnel towards the dressing room.

An evening when a sea of ​​blue and red fans always seems to turn up the temperature, the players were clearly not immune to it.

No, this is not a pillar of a gap in the dressing room or things that fall apart in the seams as the intensity of a playoff runs emerges.

It simply addresses a very public, heated exchange between the team’s two most intense competitors, open hashing out of what was probably about a few obvious errors that these flames cannot make.

The source of Andersson’s frustration was undoubtedly another consecutive 2-on-1 conversion of Maple Leafs, which capitalized on a flame defense deep in the offensive zone without a forward coverage for them.

Atypical brain cramps that cannot be made by a low scoring team that sit tied to the final playoff quay on the power of 2-1 and 3-2 wins.

Maple Leafs live for run-and-gun hockey, and with the flames that cough two offensive zone revenue with four players in deep, Maple Leafs quickly made a 2-2 game for a 6-3 thrashing.

The uncharacteristic mistakes, the loss, the violent audience and the pressure of a playoff race probably helped things to cook between Andersson and Kadri.

“Certainly, it’s competitive guys we have on our team,” said Mackenzie Weegar from the exchange he had a seat in the front row.

“We want to win every single night and get the right acting every night.

“The guys will not necessarily go to each other, but there is the competitive, intense time in the game where guys are fiery and hold each other at times or they are cursed to themselves.

“Then there are guys who pick each other at these times.

“We are a competitive group and we are fighting for an endgame and you could kind of sense it tonight.”

On the question of the heated exchange was hooked out in the second break, WeeGar joined.

“Absolutely, we love each other in this room,” said Weegar.

“You come back into the room and you talk it out and laugh, or you just say, ‘Forget it, we’ll get it back.’

“It usually doesn’t last long with this group.”

There is no disputing of the fact that the flames are a tight flock that adheres to a standard set of veterans and a coach building a culture that is conducive to success.

He is not worried about the exchange.

“No, it happens every game,” Ryan Huska shrugged his shoulders.

“Players crank with each other back and forth, they sort it out and they come to a conclusion and they move on.

“It’s one thing I love about our team is when it happens, they change gear right away. So not a problem at all. It happens pretty much every game. “

What doesn’t happen every game is to see this defensive-minded group decide to open things.

“If you were to summarize our game in a short phrase, I thought we forced violation and we got ourselves into trouble because of it,” said Huska.

“Their last three goals before the empty night were all the result of us forcing violation, which is something we typically do not. And against a team that is skilled forward, as they do, you can’t play that game. “

“I didn’t want to say the defense, but all five guys who were connected maybe a little resolved throughout the game,” Weegar said.

“It felt like at any time in the second period that could be a 3-to-2 or 2-to-1 at some point.”

“When the (opposition) loosens up such or wants to play a race-and-gun game, we need to become for our identity.

“Our identity is to stay on top of guys, be a good control, defend the right way. I thought we were not composed at the time and tried to do too much and force a few that I didn’t think was there. “

To be fair was the evening filled with deviations.

Each team had a first period goal, Dustin Wolf’s neck. (Huska explained that Wolf was already too far out of position to re -group for a possible rescue when Mathew Knies tapped it in.)

This was a loss that would serve as a strong reminder to the flames about how to best blow their exciting team on an endgame: Devils from the plan.

This message seemed loud and clear no matter how and to whom it was delivered.