[midniteowl]

Originally Posted by Calgary4LIfe

Good to see the Flames hang on for the win there. Didn't agree with the decision not to dress Stewart in the GDT, and the game reinforced that for me.

As for someone calling it a 'Staged fight' - that isn't a staged fight. That is Glass sending the Oilers and all the other teams in the NHL that you can't do that to a Calgary goalie and not expect to have to answer the bell. Feel really bad for Glass there, and I hope he is alright. I have to give him an ovation there for doing his job. Gulutzan missed the ball on that one I think, and tonight Glass paid the price for it.

Flames played a pretty decent game tonight. Backlund was back tonight - he really keeps McDavid in check, and the rest of the team did a good job the rest of the time. I didn't like to see Bartkowski on the PK (or Brouwer on the PP!!), but he did alright.

Don't agree with Kypreos - there was a scrum and a few Flames were trying to get at Lucic after that altercation. Smith was the guy on the team that wasn't going to let Lucic continue. Lucic started running around a few shifts before that and didn't stop, finally slashing Giordano. Smith took it upon himself to do something about it, and it was good to see (though I didn't enjoy seeing Lucic swinging at Smith). I thought the team rallied from that a bit.

I think it sucks, but for as long as that idiot Lucic is in Edmonton, Calgary has to have some type of a player that can nullify his stupid shenanigans. He has a history of going off and doing stupid things, and you don't want to enter a BoA scared of what may happen. For those that don't remember, things were pretty damn grim until a guy called Tim Hunter came up and started taking care of guys like Semenko, McSorely and Brown. Fortunes changed for the Flames after that. Different era, but all you have to see is Lucic's antics in the past (i.e. against Buffalo in which he basically exposed that team for being spineless, and everything just kind of went off the rails for them after that). Some people just think you turn the other cheek and take the power play, but sometimes things get out of hand and you just need a response.

Either way, fun game to watch, and the good guys won again. I hope this is the start of a LONG win streak against that embarrassing organization that can't stop congratulating itself for accomplishments made 30 years ago....

Here is the Oilers' organization every 10 minutes:


They might as well hire Barry Horowitz to their management team - he knows a thing or two about patting yourself in the back if there was any doubt.

I think Ron Hextall would be proud of our Smitty tonight!