"We're up 3-1. We score in minute into the second it's 4-1, and then I really don't know what happens there," Blue Jackets defenseman Seth Jones said. "I could not tell you. I could not explain it, but they found momentum and seemed to score on every chance they got."
Tortorella said the combination some bad bounces, opportunistic Calgary and a soft goal by Sergei Bobrovsky on the Flames' third score contributed to the meltdown.
"We've played some really good hockey. Last night we had some good minutes," Tortorella said. "It's just turned into a situation where it was one of the crazy games around our goal as far as where the pucks going.
"The chances were 16-13 us throughout the game; 13 chances and nine goals. Quite honestly, I can't blame Bob on a lot of them because it was such a crazy game in front of him with deflections, off (defenseman Ryan Murray) skate, and some crazy stuff happening."
Bobrovsky allowed eight goals on 26 shots before being lifted for Joonas Korpisalo the final 13:31.
"We need to be very careful in grading Bob in that game," Tortorella said. "There's a lot of (stuff) going on in that game."
Jones agreed that it was a team failure.
"Anytime you give up nine goals, anytime you give up four goals, I'm frustrated," he said. "Even if we find way to win, you're still frustrated with the puck going into the net.
"Anytime there's nine goals scored it's not always the goalie's fault. You can't always blame the goalie. You can't blame the forwards for not reloading. It's our job as defensemen at the end of the day to keep the puck out of the net."
The mantra after the Calgary game was that it was an aberration and the Blue Jackets, with Bobrovsky in net, will hit the reset button vs. the Flyers.
"That game was a fluke," Blue Jackets captain Nick Foligno said. "You're going to see the real Columbus Blue Jackets tomorrow in the way we're going to play. We have to."
