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Huntingwhale · 03-03-2021, 05:45 AM

I still feel excited in my stomach when I know it's gameday. Part of me looks forward to it even though I know I'm setting myself up for disappointment. Now that I live overseas I watch a recorded version the next morning. I'll avoid any sports' sites, CP or Instagram to avoid spoilers. I'll watch until the team (usually) gets scored on 1st, often quite quickly. At that point the remote is in my hand and I am on standby to start skipping through if they get scored on again. It also depends how the team is playing, but these days it's almost a given they will come out flat/listless in the 1st period and be chasing the game. But if it's a fluky goal and the team is playing decent, I'll keep the remote away.

However if it gets to 2-0 and it's an ugly game I'll usually start to skip ahead. If they score to make it 2-1 or something I'll continue to watch. But more often than not, it ends up being 3-0 or worse. At that point I just skip along, stopping occasionally in case a miracle happens but usually not. Within 45 seconds I end having skipped most of the game and see the final score. Have not seen a game yet where I have regretted this method and where I skipped to the end and the Flames ended up winning. Once they are down by a bunch, it's usually done. The cardiac comeback kids are loooooong gone never to return with this group.

The season started out great but what rot is going on with the team is now full grown invasive cancerous mold. I never wanted Ward in the first place and while I think his style sucks, I also think he's in over his head with this bunch and he also did somewhat deserve a chance to be the boss after showing a decent outing after Peters' left. I just wish he got that chance somewhere else. Guys like Gallant, Boudreau, Laviolette and Vigneault (my #1 choice) were available after Gulutzan left than Peters afterwards and it's frustrating none of them were hired. Perhaps BT talked to them and they refused, perhaps not and he eyed in simply on Peters. Either way it's a massive failure to not get a high-end coach. And I say this a long time BT fanboy; the writing should be on the wall for him after assembling this mess of a team.

So to me the Flames are a bunch of meh right now. Doesn't matter to the owners since I'm not returning to Canada for a while so they wouldn't see any of my money anyways. I'll always be loyal to them, but it's like trying to play an SNES game over and over and never beating level 1, when your buddies all got the new PS5 and are constantly seeing cool things; what's the point?

03-03-2021, 05:45 AM	#92
Huntingwhale Franchise Player Join Date: Sep 2008 Exp:	I still feel excited in my stomach when I know it's gameday. Part of me looks forward to it even though I know I'm setting myself up for disappointment. Now that I live overseas I watch a recorded version the next morning. I'll avoid any sports' sites, CP or Instagram to avoid spoilers. I'll watch until the team (usually) gets scored on 1st, often quite quickly. At that point the remote is in my hand and I am on standby to start skipping through if they get scored on again. It also depends how the team is playing, but these days it's almost a given they will come out flat/listless in the 1st period and be chasing the game. But if it's a fluky goal and the team is playing decent, I'll keep the remote away. However if it gets to 2-0 and it's an ugly game I'll usually start to skip ahead. If they score to make it 2-1 or something I'll continue to watch. But more often than not, it ends up being 3-0 or worse. At that point I just skip along, stopping occasionally in case a miracle happens but usually not. Within 45 seconds I end having skipped most of the game and see the final score. Have not seen a game yet where I have regretted this method and where I skipped to the end and the Flames ended up winning. Once they are down by a bunch, it's usually done. The cardiac comeback kids are loooooong gone never to return with this group. The season started out great but what rot is going on with the team is now full grown invasive cancerous mold. I never wanted Ward in the first place and while I think his style sucks, I also think he's in over his head with this bunch and he also did somewhat deserve a chance to be the boss after showing a decent outing after Peters' left. I just wish he got that chance somewhere else. Guys like Gallant, Boudreau, Laviolette and Vigneault (my #1 choice) were available after Gulutzan left than Peters afterwards and it's frustrating none of them were hired. Perhaps BT talked to them and they refused, perhaps not and he eyed in simply on Peters. Either way it's a massive failure to not get a high-end coach. And I say this a long time BT fanboy; the writing should be on the wall for him after assembling this mess of a team. So to me the Flames are a bunch of meh right now. Doesn't matter to the owners since I'm not returning to Canada for a while so they wouldn't see any of my money anyways. I'll always be loyal to them, but it's like trying to play an SNES game over and over and never beating level 1, when your buddies all got the new PS5 and are constantly seeing cool things; what's the point? Last edited by Huntingwhale; 03-03-2021 at 05:49 AM.