[Strange Brew]

Originally Posted by Calgary4LIfe

I predicted this off-season that we are going to see Nurse and Kane suddenly become more noticeable again. With Lucic in the lineup, I didn't even really notice those guys. First game without Lucic, suddenly Kane is running around doing his best impression of Mike Tyson in his prime, and Nurse is throwing punches before a scrum even starts.


There are two ways to respond - you either have a tougher guy to go and send the message (Flames don't have that) or you make them pay with a PP goal or two (Flames did score 2 PP goals, but their PP and overall goal scoring capability is limited).


The problem with the Flames is that there probably isn't a more 'general' team in the NHL at the moment. Not fast, not skilled, not offensive, not defensive, not tough and hard to play against... they have nothing going for themselves right now. You can't point at them and say that they are any one single specific thing. The way you compensate that is by making sure that your team is the most hard working team every night, and we certainly can't even say that right now.


I do think that teams are going to start noticing how weak the Flames are physically, and how weak the PP is, and are going to realize that demoralizing the Flames won't be so difficult. Maybe I am over-reacting. I guess we will see.

Kane is a loser of the highest order but I hate to say, I chuckled at his mic'ed up moment in that scrum. It was sadly very much on point.