In Brian Elliott's eyes, the Anaheim Ducks didn't so much win Thursday night's game as the Calgary Flames lost it.
The Ducks edged the Flames 3-2 in Game 1 of the quarterfinal series, but Calgary's goaltender attributed Anaheim's victory to some costly mistakes by his own club.
"Two power-play goals and a bad change, it's not like they really earned it that much. We kind of gave it to them," Elliott said postgame, according to The Canadian Press. "We clean things up, we'll take care of business."
The highlight of the night was Rickard Rakell's second-period goal that came on a very rare three-on-zero break, just one of the mistakes Elliott alluded to.
"I have to watch it from a different angle because all I saw was just three guys coming," Elliott said. "Try to stand your ground but that can't happen this time of year."
It was still a one-goal game, and that's something Flames forward Kris Versteeg feels the team can take out of the loss.
"All in all, we were still there in the end," Versteeg said. "We had our opportunity to tie it up and we didn't. Let's move on to the next one."
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Game 2 in the series goes Saturday night.
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