What, if anything, do you think can turn the season around?

[BRobMint]

Wranglers call ups? A trade? Or do we just wait it out and hope things can turn around? Maybe being bad and getting a higher pick could be good in the long-run? What do you guys think

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[Mobiandi]

Can't score, can't get a save from Markstrom. It looks bleak.

It would be idiocy not to give Vladar more starts and not to look at the Wranglers for scoring help

 

[OvermanKingGainer]

Down to Wranglers:

Markstrom
Mackey
Lucic
Rooney
Lewis

Up from Wranglers
Wolf
Poirier
Phillips
Zary
Pellettier

It ain't rocket science. Teams needa to get younger, faster, quicker, more offensively skilled, and get goaltending.

Every answer is on the Wranglers.

Well besides the Return of #58

 

[The Red Mile]

Down to Wranglers:

Markstrom
Mackey
Lucic
Rooney
Lewis

Up from Wranglers
Wolf
Poirier
Phillips
Zary
Pellettier

It ain't rocket science. Teams needa to get younger, faster, quicker, more offensively skilled, and get goaltending.

Every answer is on the Wranglers.

Well besides the Return of #58

I completely agree with this. Time to make players accountable again and earn their jobs. No need to spend assets just use the assets we already have.

 

[Kranix]

Phillips

 

[super6646]

Down to Wranglers:

Markstrom
Mackey
Lucic
Rooney
Lewis

Up from Wranglers
Wolf
Poirier
Phillips
Zary
Pellettier

It ain't rocket science. Teams needa to get younger, faster, quicker, more offensively skilled, and get goaltending.

Every answer is on the Wranglers.

Well besides the Return of #58

We can't waive Markstrom and Lucic due to their NMCs...

 

[Bjornar Moxnes]

We can't waive Markstrom and Lucic due to their NMCs...

Lucic isn't even the problem.

Ruzicka-Lindholm-Toffoli
Huberdeau-Kadri-Mangiapane
Pelletier-Backlund-Coleman
Dube-Zary-Phillips

looks instantly better. Lucic can be scratched and occasionally brought in by scratching one of Dube or Pelletier if we're facing a heavy and slow team.

 

[Some Other Flame]

Wouldn't be the worst thing in the world to suck for a year, win a lottery, make some changes to the periphery and come back stronger next year.

 

[Bounces R Way]

it's all up to you you handsome son of a gun

 

[Bounces R Way]

It's bad right now but it's not even that bad. I think people got a little caught up in all the brand new players and talk of being better than last year. That was always going to be some wishful thinking. The Flames were a 111pt team last year with the best line hockey and a Vezina candidate. We lost 2/3rds of that line and our goalie stinks to start this year. We've had the most difficult schedule in the league so far and are still around .500.

It's going to take some time for these players to mesh and find chemistry. It's going to take some time to come to terms with life after Gaudreau and Tkachuk. Especially Johnny who carried our offense basically since coming into the lineup. It's not the answer anybody wants to hear but some patience for this group is needed.


Definitely need more youth and speed in the lineup however. The coaching has made a lot of straight up bizarre decisions so far. The lack of creativity, rush offense, and net drive has been a major issue. Seems like a very obvious solution is to call up a guy who brings all that in Matthew Phillips but this is the Flames we're talking about here and they rarely do the obvious thing. Long term with how much money we have tied up in older players it's more necessary than ever before we get some young cheap guys up and contributing. We can't keep backfilling with crap like Lewis, Rooney, and Ritchie. Also badly need Kylington back, he makes our blueline much more dynamic.

 

[Tkachuk Norris]

It feels like the Pacific is either top 10 pick or playoff spot this year.

The top 5 guys Bedard, Michkov, Fantilli, Yager and Carlsson all look like top liners. There are other good guys behind them. That said I think our prospect pool is a lot deeper than it gets credit for with Poirier and maybe Kuz showing talent. Zary, Pelletier and Coronato look like middle 6 guys. I really keep getting Cammalerri vibes from Coronato. He’s honestly the perfect fit for Huberdeau. Wolf is still the most valuable asset in the organization in my eyes. But I’m okay with him playing most of this year in the AHL so Markstrom can make himself tradeable in the off-season.

For now:

Huberdeau-Lindholm-Toffoli
Ruzicka-Kadri-Phillips
Magiapane-Backlund-Pelletier
Coleman-Dube-Ritchie

Hanifin-Weegar
Zadorov-Andersson
Kylington(Stone)-Tanev

Time to give the youth a look. Zary can slow cook for the rest of the year in the AHL.

 

[Boomstick]

Another huge bag skate. Wasn't the team reported to be a special sort of group after a bag skate?

 

[JPeeper]

Season is 1/4 over and the division is a shit show with only the Golden Knights actually respectable, sorry LA and Seattle.

I've seen the Flames dominate great teams this year, all they need to do is make the playoffs and anything can happen. Remember that the LA Kings won the Cup as the worst seed.

Learn the system during the season (Huberdeau, Kadri, Weegar, etc.), learn your new linemates (since all our lines are different from last year) and come playoffs turn it on.

Only real concern I have is Markstrom. That Edmonton series seems to have broken his head.

 

[Body Checker]

I'd say these next five games is what can turn the Flames season around. We are playing five non-playoff teams....at home............every second day. So they get a day off after each game but not too long of a layoff. Really this next set is a beauty schedule. To me this will really show what this team is about. 5-0 would be excellent, 4-0-1 would be very good, 3-0-2 would be good...................anything else unacceptable. My expectations for these next five is we get minimum a point each game.

 

[BobColesNasalCavity]

More speed and talent. Conveniently available on our very own farm team.

 

[BobColesNasalCavity]

And of course Markstrom to start earning his pay cheque. Vladar should be getting a string of starts to send the message. Obviously

 

[DingerMcSlapshot]

Goaltending and coaching Flames biggest issues.

 

[HighLifeMan]

I'd say these next five games is what can turn the Flames season around. We are playing five non-playoff teams....at home............every second day. So they get a day off after each game but not too long of a layoff. Really this next set is a beauty schedule. To me this will really show what this team is about. 5-0 would be excellent, 4-0-1 would be very good, 3-0-2 would be good...................anything else unacceptable. My expectations for these next five is we get minimum a point each game.

I'd go even further to say that our schedule until the new year is where this team needs to wake the **** up. There is time to salvage this season - but it needs to start in a hurry.

12 or 13 wins out of 17 should really not be out of the question.

 

[viper0220]

The heart of the problem is the head coach, change that and go from there.

 

[NewEraGM]

From an outside looking in, I think flames will make playoffs but it might be as a WC. I will say i wouldn’t want to play flames in the playoffs. The seem like a dangerous deep in playoffs.

 

[I Hate Blake Coleman]

They need to shit or get off the pot.

 

[Ace Rimmer]

 

[Kranix]

Nothing short of a top line of Zary Phillips Sutter will save this season

 

[super6646]

I want to grab his rock hard ass

 

[23Monahan]

One or two players stepping up and taking over some games would be nice. Our top scorer is tied in 103rd with 16pts. EVERY other team has a player with more than 16 points and most teams have one innthe low to mid 20s, or 5+ players over 16 points. f***ing embarrassing with some of the contracts we have given out recently