GDT: Game 5: Flames @ Stars 3:30 MT
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Anglesmith
Setting up the play?
Bounces R Way
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This team has to get it through their thick smooth brained skulls that a hockey game is scheduled for 60 minutes, not 14.
Dack
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The time to change the lines was in November, but hey I'll settle for game 6.
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Mobiandi
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That 3rd period was all score effects. If the game is tied, Dallas doesn't relinquish control as easily.
It's also funny because Dallas didn't have any dangerous scoring chances all game. They just had a lot of the puck. If Dube doesn't try to dangle himself and if Hanifin remembers how take a pass then this could be a 0-0 game heading to OT
It's also funny because Dallas didn't have any dangerous scoring chances all game. They just had a lot of the puck. If Dube doesn't try to dangle himself and if Hanifin remembers how take a pass then this could be a 0-0 game heading to OT
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Positives:
Bennett
Backlund
Gaudreau
Talbot
Negatives:
Everyone else
Off the charts bad:
Coaching staff
Bennett
Backlund
Gaudreau
Talbot
Negatives:
Everyone else
Off the charts bad:
Coaching staff
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Ace Rimmer
Stoke me a clipper.
Gaudreau - Bennett - Ryan
Lucic - Monahan - Dube
Mangiapane - Backlund - Lindholm
Reider - Quine - Jankowski
How do I manifest this?
Bounces R Way
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B-b-b-bbut he hurt their feelings sometimes. And had Jonas Hiller turn in one of the worst goaltending seasons I've ever watched.
I would bring back Hartley tomorrow. Ward is way too nonchalant with this group.
OvermanKingGainer
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The Flames should not be proud of anything in that game. If the coaching staff does not drive home that this effort was not good enough, then we're cooked. Zero urgency, zero desperation. Lost every race, every battle, and zero execution.
I will say that this was the first competently reffed playoff game the Flames have played in a LOONG time. More of that for game 6, please. Let the players decide who wins and I'll take whatever outcome.
I will say that this was the first competently reffed playoff game the Flames have played in a LOONG time. More of that for game 6, please. Let the players decide who wins and I'll take whatever outcome.
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IDK, I've been praying for that top line for like over a year. Maybe a rain dance?
I would be concerned with Lucic and Monahan on the same line though, maybe switch Lucic and Mangiapane?
I would like to say that we can turn it around but i would be lying. We may do it for a game or two but even that is not realistic. Being unable to raise your game when it matters the most is what a true athlete is suppose to do. But these guys don't know how to do that. And if a team or a group can't play with more urgence then they don't deserve to be there in the first place. Our team has been too complacent for too long. And at this point I am not sure if its fixable with the group we have. Actually management and coaching falls in the same boat. You need people to care if want to achieve more than mediocrity. Singling out one or two players is not the solution or the answer. Hey if guys are ok with it then cut bait and start fresh.
Destroyed all over the ice, just like last year. The only difference is that Colorado did not have trouble converting.
Some kind of a team Tre has built, and that head coach..woof.
Some kind of a team Tre has built, and that head coach..woof.
Anglesmith
Setting up the play?
It isn't optimistic to hope that a team that has already beaten Dallas twice can do it again. It would be optimistic to expect that (which I wouldn't dare at this point), but to hope so is merely the essence of being a fan.
To acknowledge that the series isn't over is realism, not optimism.
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I think coaching deserves the blame for not making any changes to the line-up but outside of that, I don't think 04 Darryl Sutter could get anything out of this group.
We have players in their roles that are doing the right things consistently (Bennett, Brodie, Backlund, Ryan, Talbot, maybe Lucic altho clock is nearing 12).
We have players who are learning and growing (Mangiapane, Dube).
But the rest of the team just doesn't have that extra gear. How does Geoff Ward bring that out of them? By tinkering with the lines? Being a cheerleader in the locker-room?
We saw an example of good hockey being played against the Jets. Geoff Ward didn't tear up those notes because we did the same things in game 1 of this series. Our guys just can't continue that intensity.
I'm all for a Gallant or a Laviolette because they're better coaches than Ward. But this core is just monumentally flawed and we've invested in the wrong guys, while trying to trade away a couple guys who are our best players right now.
It's time to move big names
We have players in their roles that are doing the right things consistently (Bennett, Brodie, Backlund, Ryan, Talbot, maybe Lucic altho clock is nearing 12).
We have players who are learning and growing (Mangiapane, Dube).
But the rest of the team just doesn't have that extra gear. How does Geoff Ward bring that out of them? By tinkering with the lines? Being a cheerleader in the locker-room?
We saw an example of good hockey being played against the Jets. Geoff Ward didn't tear up those notes because we did the same things in game 1 of this series. Our guys just can't continue that intensity.
I'm all for a Gallant or a Laviolette because they're better coaches than Ward. But this core is just monumentally flawed and we've invested in the wrong guys, while trying to trade away a couple guys who are our best players right now.
It's time to move big names
Anglesmith
Setting up the play?
I disagree, personally. I think just about everyone on our roster is currently playing below where they would expect in terms of their track record of performance. Watching them play, I really think the pitfalls of this team are systematic. I think they spend too much time trying to figure out the right play and they get run over and look bad because the other team knows where to go and what to do most of the time.
I think in our current situation, looking to do one big trade would be fine as long as we don't settle, but I also think it would be worthwhile to put this group under one of the big names, get them all on the same page in a tight system and see how that goes for at least half a season.
OvermanKingGainer
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Even then, Gio and Andersson were way, way, wayyyy too slow on the points in making decisions.
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Yeah but I have faith in Andersson, he's a smart player needs to just start firing.
FlamerForLife
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Ward and Huska need to be let go, Monahan needs to be moved (hell just split him apart from 13), Gio needs to get his minutes cut, Forbort can leave. Please for the love of god Brad go after one of the three big ticket coaches available. Heart wants me to hope for a win on Thursday but the head says we're gonna get blown out.
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