GDT: (Oct. 7) Home Opener: Jets @ Flames

[SmellOfVictory]

Chanting Brodie. I love it. He's been world class tonight

For real, he's been fantastic. I was really hoping he'd get himself a hatty, too.

 

[Anglesmith]

Some more residual egg on our faces, though.

 

[Anglesmith]

Gaudreau with 4 points. Brodie with 4 points.

McDavid way down the standings with 3 points.

 

[Unlimited Chequing]

Amazing how much hate the move got, to be honest.

And I say that not remembering if I liked the move or not.

I wouldn't say I hated the move, but I wasn't thrilled about it. I know it's only two games but he's been solid for both of them. I feel I still need to be verbally skeptical as a superstitious thing.

 

[Unlimited Chequing]

Some more residual egg on our faces, though.

If this board's search didn't suck so much, I'd bump the crow eating thread

 

[Anglesmith]

If this board's search didn't suck so much, I'd bump the crow eating thread

No, I meant in reference to the Canucks shutting down McDavid and beating the Oilers.

And by "our" I meant the Flames'.

 

[Flameshomer]

Gaudreau-Bennett-Lazar
Versteeg-Monahan-Jagr
Tkachuk-Backlund-Frolik
Ferland-Jankowski/Stajan-Brouwer

Next game please!

 

[MonyontheMoney]

Couple things:
- I'd stick to the lines that sparked us tonight for a while, except for bringing Jagr in if he's ready to go.
- Man would I love to have Mike Smith on my team as a defenceman.
- Was being kicked out of draws as big of an issue in the first game as it was tonight? If I were Gully I'd be getting some major faceoff work in at practice to make sure the guys know what's fine and what's not with the rule change.
- When this team is supporting the puck, and moving it crisply, they look fast, when either of those things are off is when they get in trouble since they simply aren't fast enough to compensate for lacking in those areas.
- f*** yeah Brodie!

 

[OvermanKingGainer]

I say this as a huge Ferland fan but if Jagr can push Ferland onto the fourth line and Glass out of the lineup, I am all for nixing Ferland's breakout season.

Gaudreau with 4 points. Brodie with 4 points.

McDavid way down the standings with 3 points.

Ugh. And we gifted him one of those on an empty net and generally just not showing up.

 

[Dertell]

Gaudreau - Monahan - Ferland
Tkachuk - Backlund - Frolik
Versteeg - Bennett - Jagr
Stajan -/- Jankowski - Lazar

Prob the best lines GG could deploy. Either way, Lazar played a game that should earn him the next one but the first three RW spots should be locks.

 

[Dertell]

Now that I'm looking, GG really doing a better job spreading icetime... I've never seen anything so pretty the past few seasons

 

[DFF]

Gaudreau - Monahan - Ferland
Tkachuk - Backlund - Frolik
Versteeg - Bennett - Jagr
Stajan -/- Jankowski - Lazar

Prob the best lines GG could deploy. Either way, Lazar played a game that should earn him the next one but the first three RW spots should be locks.

No, please dont go back to this

Gaudreau-Bennett-Ferland/Lazar (whover can take it)
Versteeg-Monahan-Jagr
Tkachuk-Backlund-Frolik
4th line leftover

 

[Anglesmith]

Gaudreau - Monahan - Ferland
Tkachuk - Backlund - Frolik
Versteeg - Bennett - Jagr
Stajan -/- Jankowski - Lazar

Prob the best lines GG could deploy. Either way, Lazar played a game that should earn him the next one but the first three RW spots should be locks.

Based on tonight:

Gaudreau - Bennett - Lazar worked beautifully. Why not keep it?
Versteeg - Monahan - Ferland was great, but mostly because of Versteeg and Monahan, I think.
No reason to break up 3M.
Glass - Stajan - Brouwer was a good fourth line.

I think the first instinct is to try to put Jagr in Ferland's spot, and move Ferland to the fourth line. Sorry Tanner.

Or they could just go with what they were running in practice.

 

[hangman005]

Glad the Flames showed up and played in periods 2 and 3.... hopefully they play that way against the ducks and end this god forsaken curse.

 

[Volica]

Based on tonight:

Gaudreau - Bennett - Lazar worked beautifully. Why not keep it?
Versteeg - Monahan - Ferland was great, but mostly because of Versteeg and Monahan, I think.
No reason to break up 3M.
Glass - Stajan - Brouwer was a good fourth line.

I think the first instinct is to try to put Jagr in Ferland's spot, and move Ferland to the fourth line. Sorry Tanner.

Or they could just go with what they were running in practice.

I'd be really, really hard pressed to give Glass the hook against Anaheim in favour of keeping Brouwer in the lineup.

I'd personally love:

Johnny - Bennett - Lazar
Tkachuk - Backs - Frolik
Ferland - Monahan - Jagr (Having Steeger in versus Ferland kills any speed. If this team got stuck in it's own zone it'd be pulling pucks out of the net. With Ferland, I love the thoughts of them being in the offensive zone, 3 big dudes holding the puck all night)
Glass - Jankowski - Versteeg (2 skill guys and a wrecking ball, it's worked in the past)

Stajan and Brouwer shot off into the moon.

 

[Volica]

This game was a testament to the fact that Brodie is still our second best Dman, despite how amazing Hamilton is

Brodie will keep getting better as he gets more comfortable with Hammer (who had a really, really good game too IMO).

This team will win with it's defence. If they're on right side of the league in regards to SA/High Danger SC Against (which they should), they'll be a threat in the Pacific. Mike Smith's looked better than any goalie we've had in two games, outside of some Ramo stretches and Elliott's winning streak, since Kipper.

 

[FlamerForLife]

Hell of a game from Brodie, if he plays like this for most of the season, oooh baby that'll be good.

 

[CraigsList]

I'd be really, really hard pressed to give Glass the hook against Anaheim in favour of keeping Brouwer in the lineup.

I'd personally love:

Johnny - Bennett - Lazar
Tkachuk - Backs - Frolik
Ferland - Monahan - Jagr (Having Steeger in versus Ferland kills any speed. If this team got stuck in it's own zone it'd be pulling pucks out of the net. With Ferland, I love the thoughts of them being in the offensive zone, 3 big dudes holding the puck all night)
Glass - Jankowski - Versteeg (2 skill guys and a wrecking ball, it's worked in the past)

Stajan and Brouwer shot off into the moon.

The next game is against Anaheim... I would probably scratch Glass if Jagr plays.

Tkachuk - Backlund - Frolik
Versteeg - Monahan - Jagr
Gaudreau - Bennett - Lazar
Ferland - Stajan - Brouwer

 

[herashak]

Missed seeing Brodie play like that

 

[CamPopplestone]

Smith was an overlooked part of the win. His save percentage may not be pretty, but we hung him out to dry in that first period, but he didn't lose composure, and kept himself dialed in. He made some saves I don't think some of our other recent goalies would have.

Even if he can't keep up the solid play, just that fact that he doesn't seem to start losing his net once a goal goes in is nice, that was my biggest gripe with Elliott

 

[Bjornar Moxnes]

Brodie's play on that Gaudreau goal... Oh my a thing of beauty, skill, and intellect.

 

[TkachuksMouthguard]

I was already calculating what a loss would mean to this team by the end of the 1st and no way did I think we could bounce back. Glad they did! And now there is some momentum and confidence, something the team can take with them to Anaheim. Would be amazing to finally win there and begin to slay that monkey for good. One regular season game wont do it but it would be a start.

 

[Johnny Hoxville]

This win was all because of Jagr, he probably gave a half time speech for the ages.

I’m happy for Lazar. He needed a game like this more than anyone on the team. The confidence he will get from it is something he can feed off of. I think you have to keep Lazar with Bennett and Gaudreau for next game. And then yeah, Jagr gets to play with Monahan who actually isn’t slow, that’s just a misconception.

Great win for the boys, Johnny is gonna feed off this and what a great thing for Brodie. He’s been through hell the last year or so. If we get 15/16 Brodie back with a bounce back from Hamonic, it’s gonna be scary.

 

[Janks]

This win was all because of Jagr, he probably gave a half time speech for the ages.

I’m happy for Lazar. He needed a game like this more than anyone on the team. The confidence he will get from it is something he can feed off of. I think you have to keep Lazar with Bennett and Gaudreau for next game. And then yeah, Jagr gets to play with Monahan who actually isn’t slow, that’s just a misconception.

Great win for the boys, Johnny is gonna feed off this and what a great thing for Brodie. He’s been through hell the last year or so. If we get 15/16 Brodie back with a bounce back from Hamonic, it’s gonna be scary.

Couldn't agree more. Brodie needed this game, and I'm glad he got it. He played lights out in the 2nd and 3rd period.

 

[tmurfin]

I'm ashamed to say, after the Jets made it 3-1 I changed the channel and watched UFC. Of course, I check the score, 5-3 Flames. Damn missed a good one.