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Originally Posted by Jacks
Highlight of the night.
Early in the 2nd period the organist was playing the Muppets theme song. I was singing along to it in my head and then realized that he was playing the middle part where the old guys chime in.
Why do we always come here?
I guess we'll never know
It's like a kind of torture
To have to watch the show
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This guy gets it. That’s my avatar for a reason.
I have no hope for this group. Last year got me somewhat excited but the tachuck fight with klingberg sealed our fate. One good round and that team was history. Even then we made that goalie look like Ken freakin Dryden. Edmonton knew they were in our heads and our team missing it’s heart in Tanev was dead to rights. I thought a healthy tachuck does offset some of the bad play but good riddance to that guy.
That last iteration wasn’t a team that could make the good teams squirm. The better teams all knew how to play us. We could only really take advantage of favourable matchups and didn’t know how to be hard to play against. Once Tanev was injured no one could step up. Anderson and hanifin are never going to be elite. Even watching them lately how bad they are vs good teams is telling.
It was a year of over achievers while our American superstars saw Stars and Stripes and a way out. Tre didn’t have the cajones to trade him at the deadline and didn’t have the cajones to ride out a bad roster for a better pick in a loaded draft.
Now we are stuck with weegar. How many people were calling him a number one? Man I have never felt so cheap even entertaining that notion. Huberdeau is a complimentary player but one who’s gonna get paid 10 plus a year.
While our home grown other yankee is lighting it up in Miami. He will be happy to play in obscurity down there. They never win a cup in his prime I guarantee.
I can’t believe that was the best deal. Eichel for him should have been the deal.
Meanwhile our team is in the middle again. Flames sure know how to bring them into the stadium though. We will happily accept any product because we may lose our beloved flames. I commend each of you paying to go watch these poor saps go out there and beat bad teams and then get rolled on by the cream of the league year in year out.
Lindholm is not a superstar so don’t pay him like one. Anderson and hanifin are middling.I’d trade them both while they have some value. We are wasting the best years of Tanev. Markstrom is shell shocked. Huberdeau isn’t rantanen and why kadri looks average and nothing like a 90 point play driver. This team isn’t good enough. We probably get creamed by Tampa even without six regulars.
This team needs to bite the bullet and be bad. Sadly we won’t be bad when the next prodigy is up for grabs yet again. Watch Columbus get him.
They need to trade assets as I have been saying for some time. This team as constructed has little speed and creativity and can’t play smothering defence. What are we as a result? Just impotent and flaccid.
Only thing that gets me excited in alberta regarding hockey lately is mcdavid leaving in 3 years then at least the coil fans will be back to their misery alongside us. At least by then we may be on our way to actually finding blue chip talent. Yay pettiness.
Game was a measuring stick and we brought a stick to a gun fight. Colorado pwns us. That 2018 /19 season was their coming out party and they haven’t forgot who they got their groove from. They got it by beating us and destroying that group that won the west that year. Now look at that team: monny, Johnny, chucky, Benny , all gone. This new group of misfit toys are a costly one. Recoup assets. These guys aren’t winning anything save for golf tourneys in the summer.
I have been really less intense and interested this year. I see my excitement waning even more. These guys are an easy out. Sutter is counting his days to leave these clowns in the dust. No heart and no captain. No one deserves it besides Tanev but he’s gone soon. What a mess of a team.