Are we ever depleted. We seem to have 2 talented forwards in Kadri and Backlund. Ruz too if given a chance to stick with the club past his next mistake. Lindy needs playmakers with him. Everyone else in our top 9 kind of sucks.
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Are we ever depleted. We seem to have 2 talented forwards in Kadri and Backlund. Ruz too if given a chance to stick with the club past his next mistake. Lindy needs playmakers with him. Everyone else in our top 9 kind of sucks.
Think i'll go watch some Connor Bedard vids.
JurassicTunga
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BRobMint
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This is a Treliving roster for you folks; even when we have offence it’s all on one line.
ORRMAN
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Bruins fan coming in peace. I thought the Flames played really well. Great neutral zone play and your PP is dangerous; just didn't quite finish. One of the better teams we have played.
Anglesmith
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The road trip has really seen the Flames get back to playing an effective brand of hockey. Should have had the game on Long Island, and with a bit more finish could've easily had the better of these last two games. New Jersey on a back-to-back and Boston tonight were tough opponents.
Compared to the atrocious play at home since the Seattle game, it has been refreshing.
All we need now is the handy 10-game winning streak.
Compared to the atrocious play at home since the Seattle game, it has been refreshing.
All we need now is the handy 10-game winning streak.
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Meh, no shame in losing to the Bruins on the road. I just don't have the energy to watch Markstrom give up more backbreaking softies in close games in the 3rd. Ride Vladar until we win
Bounces R Way
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Call up Gully and tell him to bring the beer. Might need something stronger than Bud at this point.
If only we had some scoring talent to call up. Like maybe the leading scorer in the AHL. Maybe we could find some use for a player like that. Probably not tho
Good : Ruz was amazing. That's a game that says to the coach f*** you if you sit me again. Backs was good. Weegar I thought was our best dman. Vladar played great, should start him the next game too tbh.
Not Bad : Lucic? I guess he was hustling. Just not really good at hockey anymore. Hanifin scored so that's cool, played Pastrnak pretty well too. Lindy the defense is good, the offense is not even top 6 level at this point in time.
Not good : Kadri wasn't very good. Erratic play, missing high and wide from well out. Ditto Toffoli and Dube and Mangiapane. you have to bury on some of those, that's your f***ing job. DeSimone and Gilbert were fine but they are AHLers for a reason. Andersson stunk, just holds on to it way too long on the PP and lets all the lanes get filled in before shooting. Chasing people around in his own zone too.
Zadorov : Zadorov, also Lewis
oof : Ritchie terrible. Rooney even worse. Powerplay
Too many guys too comfortable(Dube&Mangiapane especially). Call up some young bucks and sit someone and I bet some of these forwards would perk up pretty quick.
If only we had some scoring talent to call up. Like maybe the leading scorer in the AHL. Maybe we could find some use for a player like that. Probably not tho
Good : Ruz was amazing. That's a game that says to the coach f*** you if you sit me again. Backs was good. Weegar I thought was our best dman. Vladar played great, should start him the next game too tbh.
Not Bad : Lucic? I guess he was hustling. Just not really good at hockey anymore. Hanifin scored so that's cool, played Pastrnak pretty well too. Lindy the defense is good, the offense is not even top 6 level at this point in time.
Not good : Kadri wasn't very good. Erratic play, missing high and wide from well out. Ditto Toffoli and Dube and Mangiapane. you have to bury on some of those, that's your f***ing job. DeSimone and Gilbert were fine but they are AHLers for a reason. Andersson stunk, just holds on to it way too long on the PP and lets all the lanes get filled in before shooting. Chasing people around in his own zone too.
Zadorov : Zadorov, also Lewis
oof : Ritchie terrible. Rooney even worse. Powerplay
Too many guys too comfortable(Dube&Mangiapane especially). Call up some young bucks and sit someone and I bet some of these forwards would perk up pretty quick.
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I'm frustrated but also am very confident we're still going to be a good playoff team. I'm just curious if Sutter will adapt and play Vladar more than he wants to and call up Phillips for said needed spark right now.
We'll play our way out of this and even start winning games we should lose. It's the opposite right now, but I'm confident it'll change pretty shortly and we'll go on a 5+ gamer in the other direction and go 11-3-2 or something going into xmas.
We'll play our way out of this and even start winning games we should lose. It's the opposite right now, but I'm confident it'll change pretty shortly and we'll go on a 5+ gamer in the other direction and go 11-3-2 or something going into xmas.
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maybe even throw in Pelletier on the 4th line and try to recreate something like Mangiapane-Ryan-HathawayWhatever we do keep Ruz up ffs. The guy deserves a legit chance which means not getting sent down for making a mistake or two. He is consistently decent to good when up here so quit f***ing around with this guys career already.
After that I'd really be crafting a trade. We know what we have with most of our guys. There's no sense in continuing to play some of these guys until they have no trade value. FYI, Dube is not a Bennett; Coleman might get some looks if we get creative (at least he tries); Mangi will likely never hit 30 goals again and is likely a 15 goal guy as a 3rd liner.
Backlund is the best Flames lifer ever and our 1st/2nd best player with Kadz so far this season.
After that I'd really be crafting a trade. We know what we have with most of our guys. There's no sense in continuing to play some of these guys until they have no trade value. FYI, Dube is not a Bennett; Coleman might get some looks if we get creative (at least he tries); Mangi will likely never hit 30 goals again and is likely a 15 goal guy as a 3rd liner.
Backlund is the best Flames lifer ever and our 1st/2nd best player with Kadz so far this season.
BobColesNasalCavity
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Top 6 do nothing if Kadri isn’t scoring.
Bottom 6 do nothing unless it’s Backlund scoring.
They played hard. But you have to score. Someone has to score to win. Just not enough skill. Smh
Bottom 6 do nothing unless it’s Backlund scoring.
They played hard. But you have to score. Someone has to score to win. Just not enough skill. Smh
Playoff team? Last year the Eastern conference cutoff was 18 games above .500 and Western conference cut off was 15 games .500…..we are one game under, we got a lot of work to do.
Bounces R Way
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I will take some solace in the fact that the 2018-19 and 2021-22 Flames cruised through the regular season with little adversity or prolonged problems and then soiled their hockey pants in the playoffs.
Darryl's 2011-12 and 2013-14 Kings weren't regular season world beaters either. Neither even finished top 20 in GF. I don't really care about winning the division as long as they're in the playoffs at the end of it. That's when this team will face true judgement.
Darryl's 2011-12 and 2013-14 Kings weren't regular season world beaters either. Neither even finished top 20 in GF. I don't really care about winning the division as long as they're in the playoffs at the end of it. That's when this team will face true judgement.
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Blows my mind when the team is dying for a goal with 4 mins left and Sutter tosses out the fourth line. And then they get a penalty. The coach is so archaic. The other teams must laugh because every single coach in the league throws out their best line against our fourth line all game long. Tough to support shit like that tbh
I'll never get over the lack of time outs in last years playoffs. Just unf***ingbelievable for an NHL coaching group headed by DS.
Boomstick
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Hasn't our pattern been make the playoffs, miss the playoffs every other year for quite some time now?
Hmmm that's kind of interesting.
Hmmm that's kind of interesting.
Ace Rimmer
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Probably a new coach and GM too, ugh.Sadly we’d probably still need to find a goalie.
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