"We had a good meeting this morning and after last game, too, we talked about it," said Mikael Backlund, who had an assist and played more than 17 minutes in that spellbinding, Game 1 triumph. "Overall, you can never be satisfied.
"It's a series.
"One game doesn't do it for you, so you've got to keep pushing and keep improving."
They'll have to, because the ornery Oilers are sure to be better than what they showed in the first one.
The Flames, to their credit, got the start they were looking for with a pair of quick goals in the opening minute, before Brett Ritchie made it a 3-0 game and chased Mike Smith from the Edmonton net by the six-minute mark.
Soon, they had 5-1 and 6-2 leads, before Connor McDavid and the Oilers came crawling all the way back, tying the game in the third period before the locals pulled away for good.
Rasmus Andersson, followed by a pair from Matthew Tkachuk - who completed the hat-trick late - iced it for the Flames.
But with leads that large, it shouldn't have been that close to begin with.
With McDavid - the league's leading point-getter - sleuthing on the other side, no lead is safe when the game is played that loose and care-free defensively.
"He's a great player," Head Coach Darryl Sutter said Thursday. "He's the best player in the league. He was the best player on the ice last night. Not even close.
"So, at the end of the series if Connor McDavid gets four points a game, have a good next series, Connor."
Make no mistake - Edmonton was outclassed by a Flames team that has made countless others look foolish when it comes to puck possession this year.
They finished the night with two-thirds of the even-strength shot attempts and had more than twice the number of scoring chances and high-danger looks.
But McDavid, certainly, poses a threat and can change the game on a dime. He now has a playoff-leading 18 points (5G, 13A), with 12 of them coming in the last four games.
The thing is - it's not on one guy to stop him. It's the quintessential total team effort, often referred to as the 'five-man unit.'
And even then …
"Connor McDavid's Connor McDavid," Sutter explained.
"Everybody's looking at matchups - well, how many actual matchups are there in today's game? You can't change on the fly. It's impossible, because you're going to get beat.
"Why not? Because you change the rules. You can't follow guys around no more. Players are too good. It's not like there's a fourth line that can't play or a sixth defenceman that can't play. Everybody can play. So, you've got to be able to play against good players. Very simple.
"That's why you have a structure."
For the Flames, that's been their calling card all season long.
It would have been easy to fold the tent when Kailer Yamamoto struck only 1:28 into the third period in Game 1. But they didn't. And two-time defending Cup champ Blake Coleman lauded the team's composure in that situation.
To settle things down and take back the game speaks a ton to the growth and maturity of this group.
Now, they're on to the next test:
A pivotal Game 2 that will see the Oilers at their best.
"With all the things that happened in Game 1," said Matthew Tkachuk, "to come out there with a win - even though we didn't play our best and weren't prepared for the second and third period...
"We kind of got lucky there. But we'll take the win.
"We'll definitely be making adjustments and I'm sure they will as well."
