Thread: [PGT] Flames lose 6-3 vs Avs
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Old 01-31-2013, 10:28 PM   #286
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Well this thread has turned into a collection of really odd arguments.

My thoughts.

First line was way, way too pre-occupied with trying to get Iginla a goal tonight. That #$^@ has to stop. Who cares if he doesn't have a goal? He's been playing well. I thought Jarome was fine tonight. His linemates were just awful.

Cammalleri. What the hell, man.

Stempniak was completely invisible tonight. Backlund was until the 3rd.

Too much open ice in our own zone for Avs forwards.

Nothing more needs be said about how bad Kipper was. Giguere was far, far better.

No urgency on the power play. Probably looked at Colorado's stat line and thought it would be easy to bag a few PP goals.

Just about every time there could be a backbreaking goal scored against us, there was. Unbelievable. Not a lot of confidence coupled with some bad luck going on right now.

I dunno, I really thought that we might be a good (at least, better) team this year. There were positive signs up to this point. Unfortunately, "there are positive signs" can also mean "things have mostly been bad". Thus far it appears that "mostly bad" is the key part to focus in on, not the "positive signs".

Iginla has to go. Not because he's been bad. He's been fine. He's just been the only constant save Kipper since 2004 and, ironically, outside of tonight's game, the team's lack of success obviously doesn't fall at Kipper's feet. Everything else has changed. I love the guy, but at what point do you realize that literally everything else has been tried, with little to no variation in results? Some years, we're good defensively. Some years, we're good offensively. Some years, we have a good PP. The only constant is the total inability to win a big game. The number of big games we've won since Game 5 in Tampa is a very, very short list, and in the last 4-5 years, I'm not sure there's a single one on it.

If that's not leadership, what is it?
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