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ricardodw · 09-26-2017, 09:40 AM

Exhibition game philosophy...

The Flames iced their AHL team with a few NHLers thrown in.

Hard to tell more than the AHL team is not at all ready to compete with an NHL team.

The Flames defense looked awful including Stone and Bartkowski who are the incumbent #4 and #6 and will likely be 5/6 this year.

Does that prove anything? Stone and Bartkowski will get approximately 1 minutes on an icing call against the Jets top 2 lines in a real game.

Dano, Petan, Tanev and Connor were the Jets that were on the bubble.... They all looked to be better than than Lazar and Jankowski and Foo....BUT they were looking good playing against the Flames AHL defense. Lazar Foo and Jankowski were playing against 6 of the Flames top 8 and the Jets top 4 forwards.

2 exhibition games left.. Get ready for opening day like the Jets did last night or find out who might be able to step up from #6/7 defense and not be embarrassed by NHL top lines?

09-26-2017, 09:40 AM	#656
ricardodw Franchise Player Join Date: Apr 2007 Exp:	Exhibition game philosophy... The Flames iced their AHL team with a few NHLers thrown in. Hard to tell more than the AHL team is not at all ready to compete with an NHL team. The Flames defense looked awful including Stone and Bartkowski who are the incumbent #4 and #6 and will likely be 5/6 this year. Does that prove anything? Stone and Bartkowski will get approximately 1 minutes on an icing call against the Jets top 2 lines in a real game. Dano, Petan, Tanev and Connor were the Jets that were on the bubble.... They all looked to be better than than Lazar and Jankowski and Foo....BUT they were looking good playing against the Flames AHL defense. Lazar Foo and Jankowski were playing against 6 of the Flames top 8 and the Jets top 4 forwards. 2 exhibition games left.. Get ready for opening day like the Jets did last night or find out who might be able to step up from #6/7 defense and not be embarrassed by NHL top lines? Last edited by ricardodw; 09-26-2017 at 09:47 AM.