[Cali Panthers Fan]

VERY late to this party, so apologies for repeating other people's thoughts:

1) Flames were lucky to not be down early in this game. Really poor puck management for the first half of the 1st period, and to start the 2nd period as well. Elliott made some big saves to keep his team in it early on. Thankfully they got it together later on and shut down the Jets attack, but it was pretty shakey early on.

2) Excellent special teams tonight, which is especially important since this is the one area that had not been great of late.

3) My god, that Bennett fight. I get a little concerned about player health when guys are throwing it like that without worrying about defense. Someone needs to teach that kid how to protect himself if he's going to keep fighting.

4) F U Romanuk. What a dick move to say shutout multiple times in the last few minutes of a game. I'm not that superstitious, but it's just bad form for the broadcaster to do that. The guy is such a hack.

5) Backlund is easily this team's MVP this year. I love what he brings to every aspect of the game. It's kind of laughable that Brouwer has an A over him.

6) Wideman playing 3rd pairing protected minutes was ok tonight. I still can't wait for Stone to be back in the lineup.

* And to be honest, I would easily take both Larsson and Klefbom over Stone. I would think about Sekera, but I'm not sure I would take him over Stone, and Nurse is a guy that will probably be better than Stone long term, but not right now. No to Russell, even though he's doing well this year. I like Stone a lot but let's not pretend he's anything more than a #4 d-man.


Damn it feels good to be ahead of the Oilers finally. Long time coming.