When the Flames were winning...Hartley should be coach of the year, Giordano the Norris, Brodie an all star, Wideman should be considered Norris candidate, yaddy-yadda...
Flames started losing... Hartley suck as a coach, Gio, Brodie, Wideman, Russell are bums, Hudler is a crap.. yaddy-yadda..
Wow!! At the start of the season, a lot of people here pretty much says the Flames game will go down and they will fight for Connor McDavid's sweepstakes. Last season was a fluke and so on. To everyone's surprise, Flames played very well in October and November and everyone including those people who predicted they will have a crappy team keeps telling everyone how they love this team and so on. When the team started struggling and started losing people started blaming whatever they can blame ie: injured veteran players coming back in the lineup messed up the lineup, goalies giving up way too many goals, defense playing crappy or the sad part, it is all Hartley's coaching.
I am not going to claim I am one of the best diehard Flames fan but I admit I love this team, win or lose. I watch the game and I don't look for some negative on one player and just ignore the good things he did just to make a point. Like everyone here, I do have my favorite player in this team and I have the least favorite but when I watch the game, I watch the Flames as a team and not individual. I always think this team is one of my exciting Flames team I ever since the 90s. They might not be as talented as Pittsburgh, Chicago, LA and yes even the Canucks but this team is resilient, exciting and does not know the word 'giving up'. Flames are in a 4-games losing streak and may lose their 5 straight games next but I still believe they'll go back in their winning ways.
Chill!! Season is not even half way.
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