Around The League Part 10: Sleep with one eye open
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That is his shot btw, he hits the knob of the goalie’s stick more than any player I’ve ever seen. He might legitimately have 10 more career goals if goalies weren’t allowed to tape there.
I’ve never agreed that he has a muffin shot, I think he has a good release in a vacuum (situations like those) but it doesn’t come through in the normal flow of play.
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As someone who was/is a big Lindholm fan, don't expect him to score too many of those.
He's simply not a great shooter. Even that shot didn't look that great to me. But what do I know, I've only watched Lindy for 4-5 years.
Even Svechnikov had a similar goal yesterday but on the opposite side as a left handed shooter. But wasn't too impressive beating the goalie short side. Should have had gone to the Buffalo board and told them they will regret taking Dahlin over him because of it though.
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Also now I see the Flames gave up a 3-1 lead and are now trailing 4-3. Flames outshooting Oilers 40-18 too.
Experience Bill Peters hockey.
Experience Bill Peters hockey.
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Somehow it will in Calgary just to spite us.
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At least it wasn't the dreaded 3 or 4 goal lead.
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Still a 2 or more goal lead where they were 2x outshooting the other team.
I mean that's just classic Bill Peters. Luckily for the Flames it's just preseason and Peters may figure things out yet, especially if he gets another 4 seasons.
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1/7 on the power play.
Yep, that sounds familiar.
Yep, that sounds familiar.
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I took a quick gander at their gdt.
There were a couple back to back posts that made me chuckle.
“3 goals (against) on 13 shots, what the f***”
“I’m not a fan of Ryan on the powerplay”
Not exact quotes, but you get the point.
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Thought this was interesting on Kruger last year and Bill Peters (from an Athletic article about opinions on CHI this year):
Scout 3: I don’t think Bill Peters liked him in Carolina. I don’t think it was an organizational decision. Once Bill shit on him, I don’t think he ever recovered. He lost all of his confidence and then he was hurt at the end of the year. It was a big mistake by Carolina. I think he can play and be a fourth-line center on any team.
Scout 3: I don’t think Bill Peters liked him in Carolina. I don’t think it was an organizational decision. Once Bill shit on him, I don’t think he ever recovered. He lost all of his confidence and then he was hurt at the end of the year. It was a big mistake by Carolina. I think he can play and be a fourth-line center on any team.
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Kruger was just awful though, Peters doghouse or not. He played like garbage. That's all on Kruger. He got probably more of a chance than he deserved to be honest.
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Yeah, I don't doubt he crapped on Kruger, but he more than earned that.
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Yeah, I got off my high horses quickly. Smith looked like absolute crap.
I saw the first movie and didn’t care for it. I’m surprised they made a sequel.
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Not sure how things are going in Calgary but Peters system here seemed to limit a lot of chances but gave up a lot of room in the slot or odd man rushes making goalies look worse than they actually were.
The team always collapsed in the 3rd too. How has Calgary been this preseason?
Really iffy. Last 2 games, flames gave up goals after taking a lead (still beat San Jose 4-3), and blew a 3-1 lead against Edmonton in the 2nd period. We've also won/lost in OT games in which we were trailing in, so its weird. I noticed the Flames early on in the pre-season were giving up a lot of odd man rushes, but that seems to be cut down dramatically. Goaltending has been like in the 870-880SV% range, but the flames have been scoring a lot as well, and most of the GA's have been really goddamn fluky. Overall 4-3-3 record.
Its pre-season, so I can't judge Peters until I start seeing the regular season. But there have been a lot of question marks with our goaltending heading into the season, so idk if I can blame him on that. The one thing that REALLY needs to be fixed is the PP which is running at a horrific 12% this pre-season (PK was really good until this game, and I believe that was more because of the people they ran on it this time).
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Thanks for the feedback. From what I recall Flames fans were really fond of Smith on average?
Well yeah, he carried our team the first half of last season with a 926SV% before gradually falling back to Earth and then completely falling off a cliff once he came back from his injury. Lot of question marks surrounding him, but he was pretty terrible last pre-season and turned it on in the regular season. I'd be more concerned with the fact that Smith is an injury risk and our backup situation is pretty dire with nobody solidifying it.
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I still haven't quite gotten over that opening-night loss in Winnipeg 2 years ago (actually I have but still). They win that game it's a big momentum boost for the season.
Instead, they folded like a cheap tent. Did the same thing again the next night too in Vancouver
And don't get me started on the San Jose game last year
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