“We’re capable of much better than this. They made us pay on every play that we turned the puck over. That was the difference in the game.

“I don’t think it was a lack of desire. It was about execution. We didn’t lose the game late in the third. We lost the game much before this.

“We played with fire and we burned ourselves.”

-Bob Hartley, coach of the Calgary Flames after losing 6-3 to the Avalanche at home. More from George Johnson of the Calgary Herald.