GDT: YYC vs YYZ 5:00 – 7:30ish MT, Thursday 16th, January 2020

[super6646]

Either we Dallas stars our way into the playoffs or we are screwed. Us sporting a -10 gd and yet being 1st in the pacific is goddamn hilarious.

I can’t see us making it with how anemic our scoring is. It’s really troubling to watch

 

[Bounces R Way]

Need another top 6 scorer badly. Somebody who can shoot FFS and can hang on to the puck for longer than 3 seconds.

Still really don't have any idea what Lucic is doing on this team. Guy is cooked. Can't skate, can't pass, can't shoot. Useless.

 

[super6646]

Need another top 6 scorer badly. Somebody who can shoot FFS and can hang on to the puck for longer than 3 seconds.

Still really don't have any idea what Lucic is doing on this team. Guy is cooked. Can't skate, can't pass, can't shoot. Useless.

Hart and sole...

Guy is useless. He’ll get some lucky pp goals and that’s it. At least Neal does it 10 times better.

 

[OvermanKingGainer]

Either we Dallas stars our way into the playoffs or we are screwed. Us sporting a -10 gd and yet being 1st in the pacific is goddamn hilarious.

I can’t see us making it with how anemic our scoring is. It’s really troubling to watch

Regular season goalscoring isn't the end-all be-all if your team can carry the play and keep the puck out of their own net. The 2014 Kings were 25th in goals for.

That said, our inability to actually control the play is of concern.

 

[FerklundCGY]

How great has Derek Ryan been offensively at 5v5 this season?

5th on the team in G/60 (0.73)
1st on the team in A/60 (1.25)
3rd on the team in Primary Assists/60 (0.62)
1st on the team in Points/60 (1.97)

Phenomenal.

 

[super6646]

How great has Derek Ryan been offensively at 5v5 this season?

5th on the team in G/60 (0.73)
1st on the team in A/60 (1.25)
3rd on the team in Primary Assists/60 (0.62)
1st on the team in Points/60 (1.97)

Phenomenal.

He’s our entire “depth” at this point. Far and away better than anyone else in our bottom 6.

 

[JPeeper]

Game Winner tonight gonna be scored by

God damn.

 

[Anglesmith]

We win!

 

[Fig]

That game was so...

 

[Mazatt]

Jankowski was noticeably like, good today. Well, good for his standards. Made a few good plays to hold the puck in and drew a penalty by almost undressing Sandin on the PK. Liked what I saw from him but the main attraction was 100% Rittich. God damn he was good.

 

[ponder]

Leafs fan coming in peace, just wanna give props to Rittich, who was absolutely unreal. Maybe the best goaltending performance I’ve seen so far this season, he stopped SO MANY absolutely stellar scoring chances. Dude 100% deserves that all-star nod.

 

[Dack]

I crap on the Flames for being bad and inconsistent as much as anyone but I don't see this as one of those games tbh. I watched almost the entire game and I thought it was even until the last 5 mins or so.


They played fine, not ideal especially considering the other team was hobbled with injuries but they played well enough to win. They won the quality (XGF%, HDCF%, SCF%). On top of that Rittich was great, the tale about the game seems to be that this was a Leafs blowout that Rittich single handedly stopped from happening and that's just not the case.


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Also sidenote Johnny has 27 sog in the last 5 games.

 

[Boomstick]

Just saw the highlights, wow Rittich, you're a beast.

 

[Ace Rimmer]

Want an example of a goalie stealing a game?

This was an example of a goalie stealing a game.

 

[DFF]

I crap on the Flames for being bad and inconsistent as much as anyone but I don't see this as one of those games tbh. I watched almost the entire game and I thought it was even until the last 5 mins or so.


They played fine, not ideal especially considering the other team was hobbled with injuries but they played well enough to win. They won the quality (XGF%, HDCF%, SCF%). On top of that Rittich was great, the tale about the game seems to be that this was a Leafs blowout that Rittich single handedly stopped from happening and that's just not the case.


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Also sidenote Johnny has 27 sog in the last 5 games.

My eyes are lying to me.

The flames had chances but they can't shoot and rittich made at least 5 sure goals saves....it could have been a blowout...

 

[Amadeus]

I think Toronto and Calgary are two very evenly matched teams. I thought you guys played well defensively not letting Toronto set up in your offensive zone.

Rittich was possessed. Good game!

 

[King In The North]

Great game Leafs fans, OT was fun to watch!

 

[crackdown44]

Jankowski was noticeably like, good today. Well, good for his standards. Made a few good plays to hold the puck in and drew a penalty by almost undressing Sandin on the PK. Liked what I saw from him but the main attraction was 100% Rittich. God damn he was good.

Home game for him. Hopefully he can keep the momentum going though

 

[OvermanKingGainer]

I crap on the Flames for being bad and inconsistent as much as anyone but I don't see this as one of those games tbh. I watched almost the entire game and I thought it was even until the last 5 mins or so.


They played fine, not ideal especially considering the other team was hobbled with injuries but they played well enough to win. They won the quality (XGF%, HDCF%, SCF%). On top of that Rittich was great, the tale about the game seems to be that this was a Leafs blowout that Rittich single handedly stopped from happening and that's just not the case.


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Also sidenote Johnny has 27 sog in the last 5 games.

I agree, both teams played well enough to win. Toronto's goalie was also outstanding so there's no shame in Rittich being the difference. That said

- ITO skaters it was 5 (Calgary) on 8 (Toronto + Whistles). So we needed our goalie to come up big. Heck Ritter gets the regulation shutout if not for that phantom call on Rieder, which followed a phantom call on Kylington, which followed a 1000% phantom call on Bennett. I missed the call on Lindholm but I am suspicious of it.
- the types of rush chances Toronto generated - 3 on 1s etc, were not something Calgary generated and this is something our coaching staff needs to analyse. Our quality chances were on the cycle, where there's less time and space to get a shot off.
- the biggest area we need to work on continues to be the PP. When we got the disingenuous makeup calls after TO tied it up, I knew we wouldn't score on them.

 

[Flames Fanatic]

Need another top 6 scorer badly. Somebody who can shoot FFS and can hang on to the puck for longer than 3 seconds.

Still really don't have any idea what Lucic is doing on this team. Guy is cooked. Can't skate, can't pass, can't shoot. Useless.

I mean he's not great lately, but he still contributed decently on the first goal. Only reason that Dube got the puck is cause Lucic forced the turnover.

 

[crackdown44]

I mean he's not great lately, but he still contributed decently on the first goal. Only reason that Dube got the puck is cause Lucic forced the turnover.

I don’t disagree but unless it’s a dumb game like Saturday there’s no reason both Lucic and Rinaldo should be in the lineup at the same time. Especially with the other options we have available

Also there’s probably a better fit for Ryan with how well he’s been playing. If you add a top 6 RW you can drop Backlund down and have Dube-Backlund-Ryan where they alternate faceoffs and that’ll be a lot better

 

[DFF]

I don’t disagree but unless it’s a dumb game like Saturday there’s no reason both Lucic and Rinaldo should be in the lineup at the same time. Especially with the other options we have available

Also there’s probably a better fit for Ryan with how well he’s been playing. If you add a top 6 RW you can drop Backlund down and have Dube-Backlund-Ryan where they alternate faceoffs and that’ll be a lot better

Exactly lucic and Rinaldo together just make me want to fire Ward. So dumb.

On the record IMO, lucic is not great but having a lucic in the lineup is not a big problem...just don't have two of them.

You can clearly see his issues but he made some decent play as a bottom line player and some how I feel he is a good teammate not like that jerk we dealt for him

 

[Flames Fanatic]

I don’t disagree but unless it’s a dumb game like Saturday there’s no reason both Lucic and Rinaldo should be in the lineup at the same time. Especially with the other options we have available

Also there’s probably a better fit for Ryan with how well he’s been playing. If you add a top 6 RW you can drop Backlund down and have Dube-Backlund-Ryan where they alternate faceoffs and that’ll be a lot better

I would agree on all counts.

 

[Mobiandi]

the biggest area we need to work on continues to be the PP. When we got the disingenuous makeup calls after TO tied it up, I knew we wouldn't score on them.

I think you're half right. The biggest obstacle we currently face is getting our Dmen more involved in our offense, which is a huge reason as to why our PP has looked bad.

This is where Gallant comes in, who found a way to regularly do so with Vegas' awful (on paper) Dmen

 

[Ace Rimmer]

IMO there is no reason to not have two defensemen on each PP unit. And having two very good PP units to boot.

Gaudreau - Monahan - Lindholm
Andersson - Brodie

Tkachuk - Backlund - Ryan
Giordano - Kylington