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Peters gave four players the day off — Giordano, Hamonic, Elias Lindholm and Sean Monahan — noting they are players who have done some of the heavy lifting lately. Lindholm is on an eight-game point streak with five goals and five assists in that span while Giordano logged 28:22 of ice time on Tuesday and had a game-high nine shots on net. Monahan was 72 per cent in the face-off circle (winning 13-of-18 face-offs).

Giordano said he was unsure if the lineup would stay altered or not, but they have to be prepared for change.

“I don’t know,” said the Flames captain. “(Thursday) we’ll come in and at the morning skate, we’ll have an idea of who we’ll be paired with. But it’s up to us. Coaches, they’re not going to keep pairs and lines the same if it’s not working. They’re going to shake it up and try to help us win.

“It’s up to us to be prepared, to be ready and execute well.”

Peters noted that he’d like to see the workload spread around, that he’d like to get more of his players involved. He wants his players to be realistic about the plays they make. Simple, sometimes, is better.

“There are times when you’re at the end of a shift, it’s two-versus-three and you’ve gotta get it in and gotta get it deep and make their ‘D’ turn and get off,” Peters said. “That’s a good play. It’s not a sexy play. It’s not going to show up on the box score.

“But that’s the play.”

The goaltending — between David Rittich (8-4-2, 2.79 goal-against average and .915 save percentage) and Cam Talbot (1-3-0, 2.85 goals-against average and .899 save percentage) — has not been the problem. Neither has their penalty kill, shockingly, considering they are the most-penalized in the NHL at the moment. It’s operating at a tidy 87.9 per cent (the fourth-best in the league before Wednesday’s action) but, arguably, their lack of discipline has been disrupting the general flow of their games.