Feb 16 Practice notes

[sureLoss]

Pat Steinberg @Fan960Steinberg
🚨 Jersey alert!! 🚨

#Flames wearing their retro whites tomorrow afternoon vs. Anaheim.

Pat Steinberg @Fan960Steinberg
Derek Ryan and Mikael Backlund are not on the ice for practice this afternoon. Believe both are under the weather.

Ryan missed Saturday’s game vs. Chicago due to illness. #Flames

Pat Steinberg @Fan960Steinberg
#Flames at practice today:

Gaudreau-Monahan-Lindholm
Mangiapane-Jankowski-Tkachuk
Lucic-Bennett-Dube
Rinaldo-Rieder-Robinson

Hanifin-Andersson
Brodie-Stone
Kylington-Yelesin
Davidson

Ryan, Backlund both absent.

[agulati]

Man, if both can’t play tomorrow, we look so sparsely thin. Hopefully Ryan can go.

[GioforPM]

I wonder how many were playing with the flu lately. IMO Monahan looked like it, as well as Tkachuk.

[Manhattanboy]

Afraid I can’t tell healthy Monahan from fluish Monahan.

[Toonage]

Yep, would not shock me if its running through the team.

No pun intended?

[Yrebmi]

I wonder how many were playing with the flu lately. IMO Monahan looked like it, as well as Tkachuk.

That would at least make some sense of the Jeckle and Hyde act

[GioforPM]

Afraid I can’t tell healthy Monahan from fluish Monahan.

I can. Even without scoring Monahan was getting to tough spots and getting good shots at the net. He was also getting more and more physical this year. Yesterday he wasn’t. Of course, that could be just a bad effort. But when Bennett was out and Ryan Leslie was sick, Ball said something like “it’s running through the team”. Guys play with the flu quite a bit - you have to be really sick to miss a game because of it.

[getoverit]

so I guess we have had the flu since October, explains allot

[GranteedEV]

I can. Even without scoring Monahan was getting to tough spots and getting good shots at the net.

IIRC Monahan lead our team 5v5 in shots and expected goals...and we outshot the opponent on a whole.

[GioforPM]

so I guess we have had the flu since October, explains allot

Sigh. You know, not every musing is a statement of fact. But there are three players known to have had the flu, plus Ryan Leslie, the PBP guy who’s with them all the time says it’s running through the team. So maybe it is.

[Robo]

Glad they have a pretty long break after this game

[Joborule]

That would at least make some sense of the Jeckle and Hyde act

So the team's been sick since Game 1 of the season?

[Flash Walken]

So the team's been sick since Game 1 of the season?

Since last april

[sureLoss]

Sounds like there maybe a call up tomorrow:

Pat Steinberg @Fan960Steinberg
Derek Ryan and Mikael Backlund both question marks tomorrow afternoon vs. Anaheim (illness). Coach Ward says team might have to recall someone from AHL Stockton to address void on the PK if those two can’t play.

No decision on a starting goaltender. #Flames

[Toonage]

Czarnik doesn't kill penalties so not him. Gawdin? Quine?

[Flash Walken]

Buddy!

[KootenayFlamesFan]

If two centers are out I'll guess Quine is the one to get the call. Can play center and the PK.

[Toonage]

Probably want some stability and fewer questions or surprises so Quine it is.

[Rando]

This sad sack of sucks doesn't deserve to wear those jerseys tomorrow.

[The Hendog]

It’s one of those McDavid flus

Caught it at the all star game last year and pretty much impossible to kick

Sportsnet currently working on the documentary on how McDavid flu has infected the entire world

[savardandjokinen]

Byron Froese is another possibility. Centre and penalty kills

[GranteedEV]

Sounds like there maybe a call up tomorrow:

Pat Steinberg @Fan960Steinberg
Derek Ryan and Mikael Backlund both question marks tomorrow afternoon vs. Anaheim (illness). Coach Ward says team might have to recall someone from AHL Stockton to address void on the PK if those two can’t play.

No decision on a starting goaltender. #Flames

:rolleyes:

Jankowski - Lindholm
Bennett - Rieder
Dube - Mangiapane

What am I missing? Plenty of capable penalty killers. Even Monahan's had success on the PK.

I'm all for calling up some bodies given the limitations of Robinson and Rinaldo but let's give guys who've had success killing penalties before a chance to kill some penalties.

[Toonage]

Byron Froese is another possibility. Centre and penalty kills

NHL experience too.

[FanIn80]

We want Gawdin!

[Zevo]

:rolleyes:

Jankowski - Lindholm
Bennett - Rieder
Dube - Mangiapane

What am I missing? Plenty of capable penalty killers. Even Monahan's had success on the PK.

I'm all for calling up some bodies given the limitations of Robinson and Rinaldo but let's give guys who've had success killing penalties before a chance to kill some penalties.

It's amazing you have no NHL coaching experience(maybe you do?). You always seem to know better.

[Locke]

Practice doesnt appear to be doing this group a whole lot of good.

[GranteedEV]

It's amazing you have no NHL coaching experience(maybe you do?). You always seem to know better.

I'm assuming you're being sarcastic, but what about my statement is false?

Lindholm, Rieder, and Jankowski have had success killing penalties under this coaching staff.

Bennett was one of the best PKers on a strong PK in 2016-17. In fact there were at least an article (https://flamesnation.ca/2017/01/04/sam-bennett-should-be-a-fixture-on-the-penalty-kill/), and another article (https://flamesnation.ca/2017/08/01/who-should-be-on-the-flames-powerplay-and-penalty-kill/) arguing that the numbers suggested he was being underutilized based on his success.

Dube and Mangiapane were both two of the best PKers on their team all throughout junior and their AHL careers.

This is all public knowledge. What's amazing is that the coaches don't seem aware of these facts.

[Rando]

Actually wish Monahan was a regular on the PK, it would keep him engaged in the game and make him a much more useful player.

[Zevo]

I'm assuming you're being sarcasting, but what about my statement is false?

Lindholm, Rieder, and Jankowski have had success killing penalties under this coaching staff.

Bennett was one of the best PKers on a strong PK in 2016-17

Dube and Mangiapane were both two of the best PKers on their team all throughout junior and their AHL careers.

This is all public knowledge.
I don't disagree that the Flames need a different coach. Not a fan of Ward as a head coach but to critic this decision without knowing the full reasoning behind it and going of a Steinberg tweet reeks like criticizing Ward just for the sake of it and because you don't like him.

[SeanCharles]

Am I the only one who wants the trend of Bennett at center with Dube as his winger to stick?

Gaudreau-Monahan-Lindholm
Tkachuk-Backlund-Mangiapane
Lucic-Bennett-Dube
Jankowski/Ryan/Rieder/Robinson

[GranteedEV]

I don't disagree that the Flames need a different coach. Not a fan of Ward as a head coach but to critic this decision without knowing the full reasoning behind it and going of a Steinberg tweet reeks like criticizing Ward just for the sake of it and because you don't like him.

I'm criticizing a blatantly false statement (that there is a void on the penalty kill). There's no void. Just opportunity. If Steinberg said it, then I am criticizing his statement. If Ward originally said it, then I am criticizing his statement.

[Zevo]

I'm criticizing a blatantly false statement (that there is a void on the penalty kill). There's no void. Just opportunity. If Steinberg said it, then I am criticizing his statement. If Ward originally said it, then I am criticizing his statement.
Disagree I guess. Both Dube and Mangiapane don't penalty kill and probably don't practice the penalty kill(at least as much as others in Stockton) and Bennett hasn't in what, 3 years? I would think they have better options that penalty kill every game.

Not every decision Ward makes needs an eye roll. Some are just innocuous. If you think there are other options great, there are. Doesn't make different ones wrong.

[DeluxeMoustache]

I wonder how many were playing with the flu lately. IMO Monahan looked like it, as well as Tkachuk.

This wouldn’t surprise me. Tkachuk lost some 1 on 1 battles pretty easily, and didn’t even seem to feel up to trying his usual 3-4 between the legs plays.