Game 4: Flames @ Avalanche | 10 PM | NBCSN,TVAS,CBC

[McMetal]

THE COLORADO AVALANCHE

VS

THE CALGARY (F)LAMES

Kerfoot - MacKinnon - Landeskog
Wilson - Soderberg - Rantanen
Calvert - Compher - Nieto
Andrighetto - Jost - Bourque

Cole - Johnson
Zadorov - Barrie
Nemeth - Makar

Grubauer
Varlamov


Gaudreau - Monahan - Lindholm
Tkachuk - Backlund - Frolik
Bennett - Jankowski - Neal
Mangiapane - Ryan - Hathaway

Giordano - Andersson
Hanifin - Hamonic
Fantenberg - Brodie

Smith?
Rittich?

LIVE LOOK INSIDE THE CALGARY LOCKER ROOM
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[AvsFan29]

If we can put up 56 shots again, I like our chances.

 

[Cousin Eddie]

Hopefully the Avs aren't as overconfident as their fans are.

Plenty of reason to be confident. The Avalanche are dominating this series. Still doesn’t mean much though. Flames are more than capable of taking this series over.

Tonight’s game is massive.

 

[McMetal]

This was meant to be an over the top homer post for our own boards. No disrespect to Flames fans, although I doubt that anybody will read far enough down to see this.

 

[Jixer19]

As usual, good luck tonight Flame fans (not too much luck) and someone just do their job tonight!

 

[Ararana]

Plenty of reason to be confident. The Avalanche are dominating this series. Still doesn’t mean much though. Flames are more than capable of taking this series over.

Tonight’s game is massive.

Not quite. Give me another game 3 tonight and this might be true. Right now the Avs have been the better team but they've only had one game of pure domination. Game 2 they were the better team with a close score, game 1 the teams were about even with a lopsided score.

Flames are going to come out tonight playing their best hockey with, what I would image, a new game strategy.

 

[azcanuck]

How did the Flames even make the playoffs.

Oh yea I forgot the playoffs are when the men really need to show up.

 

[crackdown44]

This was meant to be an over the top homer post for our own boards. No disrespect to Flames fans, although I doubt that anybody will read far enough down to see this.

Jokes on you I can’t read

 

[Coffey]

Go Avs go!

 

[NOTENOUGHJTCGOALS]

Like I said before the series started MacGinnon will take over and have a 3 point game. Otherwise he'll be a mouse. Flames will tilt the ice against the Aves top line and their depth will win. Flames win the next 3 games and outscore the Aves by 18 to 4.

I haven't checked the facts but its a fact that the top seeds in each conference have never both lost in the first round. Its statistically impossible for the Aves to win at this point.

 

[Cousin Eddie]

Not quite. Give me another game 3 tonight and this might be true. Right now the Avs have been the better team but they've only had one game of pure domination. Game 2 they were the better team with a close score, game 1 the teams were about even with a lopsided score.

Flames are going to come out tonight playing their best hockey with, what I would image, a new game strategy.

Game two was a dominant performance by the Avs. 5v5 it was even more dominant than game 3.

 

[Ararana]

Game two was a dominant performance by the Avs. 5v5 it was even more dominant than game 3.

Like I said the Avs were the better team in game 2. For me pure domination requires the scoreboard + the corsi. Lets hope it continues tonight.

 

[TkachuksMouthguard]

Tonights game will probably be the most decisive game of the series. If the Avs come out fighting hard and take the game, no doubt they take the series. If the Flames take control and show up to take the game, momentum could easily shift.

Anything can happen in the post season. Just ask Tampa.

GO FLAMERS!!!

 

[WarriorOfGandhi]

Like I said before the series started MacGinnon will take over and have a 3 point game. Otherwise he'll be a mouse. Flames will tilt the ice against the Aves top line and their depth will win. Flames win the next 3 games and outscore the Aves by 18 to 4.

I haven't checked the facts but its a fact that the top seeds in each conference have never both lost in the first round. Its statistically impossible for the Aves to win at this point.

more like MouseGinnon, amirite

 

[Linnie The Pooh]

There are one thing on both teams I do not like and I feel that is shaky and I feel will be the ultimate downfall for both of these squads. That is the goaltending. That being said I would take Grubs over Smith or Rittich any day. Also I feel Colorado has very impressive offense. I see Colorado taking a 3 to 1 game lead in this series tonight.

 

[tmurfin]

It ain’t over until it’s over.

Go Flames!

 

[cgf]

Jokes on you I can’t read

Are you sure you're not from colorado & rooting for the wrong team by mistake?

 

[IndustryLeech]

If I'm being 100% honest, I don't have a good feeling about tonight's game. I think Calgary adjusts and we have a bit of a letdown game.

 

[NOTENOUGHJTCGOALS]

Game two was a dominant performance by the Avs. 5v5 it was even more dominant than game 3.

Flames have adjusted. They are going to paint that graph red 5 on 5. And their PP could literally score 8 goals tonight.

 

[Cousin Eddie]

Avs win and it’s a 3-1 stranglehold.
Calgary wins and it’s a tied series heading back home for 2 of the last 3 potential games.

Crazy how important this game is.

 

[AvsFan29]

If I'm being 100% honest, I don't have a good feeling about tonight's game. I think Calgary adjusts and we have a bit of a letdown game.

I'm sure they've figured the Avs out, and the last game was just a giant oversight by them.

 

[JoeSakic13]

Any confirmation on the lines for either side?

I can't imagine that Calgary puts in Rittich (as Smith hasn't been their problem), but I've been surprised in the playoffs before.

 

[AvsFan29]

There are one thing on both teams I do not like and I feel that is shaky and I feel will be the ultimate downfall for both of these squads. That is the goaltending. That being said I would take Grubs over Smith or Rittich any day. Also I feel Colorado has very impressive offense. I see Colorado taking a 3 to 1 game lead in this series tonight.

Grubauer has been lights out for a month. Last game Calgary scored a goal off a skate, and their second goal was just MacKinnon being lazy.

 

[Cousin Eddie]

Any confirmation on the lines for either side?

I can't imagine that Calgary puts in Rittich (as Smith hasn't been their problem), but I've been surprised in the playoffs before.

Brassard and Girard aren’t practicing so I’d assume Colorado has the same lineup as game 3.

 

[McMetal]

Any confirmation on the lines for either side?

I can't imagine that Calgary puts in Rittich (as Smith hasn't been their problem), but I've been surprised in the playoffs before.

Smith actually played really well on Monday to only allow six, it could have easily been double that. But I could see the Flames trying to shake things up by putting Rittich in for game four to try to goose their team a little bit. Not likely, but possible.