12-23-2015, 12:36 PM
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The Battle of Alberta™
Perhaps I am being a bit hyperbolic here, but Sunday night we will witness the most significant (for both teams) Flames - Oilers game in nearly a decade??
With both teams playing well in December, the Flames with a 10-game home winning streak and the Oilers actually playing and acting like a professional hockey team, I am legitimately pumped for the return of the BOA Sunday night.
I can feel my Oiler rage getting stronger as I type this. That's a good thing.
Last edited by trumpethead; 12-23-2015 at 12:49 PM.
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12-23-2015, 12:43 PM
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Whoa man! You cant say things like that! You want us to get sued or something?
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12-23-2015, 12:44 PM
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Acerbic Cyberbully
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The Battle of What Now??
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12-23-2015, 12:45 PM
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Battle of Alberta™
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12-23-2015, 12:48 PM
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#1 Goaltender
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Johnny ! Johnny ! Johnny !
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12-23-2015, 12:51 PM
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Both teams are just as close to being a lottery team as they are making the playoffs so I would personally wait for a time when both teams face off with records well above .500.
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12-23-2015, 12:54 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
Both teams are just as close to being a lottery team as they are making the playoffs so I would personally wait for a time when both teams face off with above .500 records and I'm not talking about the somewhat watered down records we have now with losses counting as points in extra time.
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That's irrelevant though, as both teams are within points of a playoff spot. Doesn't matter if they're also close to the bottom. The point is there has not been a BOA with this significance in a decade; there have never been playoff implications for BOTH during that time frame.
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12-23-2015, 01:02 PM
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Both teams are within points of a playoff spot. Both teams are within points of a prime lottery spot.
I agree the game is significant for both teams... the problem is that they aren't chasing the same prize...
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12-23-2015, 01:04 PM
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Cease and Desist immediately! Edmonton is No Good!
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12-23-2015, 01:04 PM
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The Flames vs Oilers has been a ridiculously one-sided affair for the better part of five years now. Until Edmonton wins a few games against us in the same season it just can't be called a "battle". In recent years there is no denying it's been the "one sided drubbing of Alberta".
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12-23-2015, 01:07 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by GoJetsGo
The Flames vs Oilers has been a ridiculously one-sided affair for the better part of five years now. Until Edmonton wins a few games against us in the same season it just can't be called a "battle". In recent years there is no denying it's been the "one sided drubbing of Alberta".
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I prefer to look at it as "The Scheduled Allocation of Points to the Calgary Flames."
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12-23-2015, 01:08 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Locke
Whoa man! You cant say things like that! You want us to get sued or something?
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Can we be sued for suggesting that "the Oilers are actually playing and acting like a professional hockey team"?
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12-23-2015, 01:09 PM
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We can't call it a true BOA until Mony, Gaudreau, Bennett et al are going head to head against McDavid, Hall, Draisaitl et al. The game on Sunday will be a tune up. They also play on Jan 16 and April 2nd. Not sure if McDavid is back for Jan 16, but that April 2nd game could be critical for playoff implications.
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12-23-2015, 01:18 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by trumpethead
Can we be sued for suggesting that "the Oilers are actually playing and acting like a professional hockey team"?
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I dont know if we can but by God if anyone were to make such a blasphemous statement they should be sued into oblivion and then subsequently launched into an Elephant's anus.
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12-23-2015, 01:49 PM
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Norm!
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The conflict in the Canadian North Second Most Western Province. The Thrilla in the OilSands.
The slap fight west of Saskatoon?
But I've never heard of this other term.
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12-23-2015, 02:04 PM
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All I can get
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I blame Notley.
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12-23-2015, 02:16 PM
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Acerbic Cyberbully
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Gaudfather
...They also play on Jan 16 and April 2nd. Not sure if McDavid is back for Jan 16, but that April 2nd game could be critical for playoff implications.
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Hahahahahaha!
No.
The Oilers will be out of the mix by the end of January.
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12-23-2015, 02:19 PM
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I was at this game last year and Johnny scored 2 goals in less than a minute and it was such a solid win start to finish domination.
Oilers are coming in off a back to back and the Flames will want to avenge the last home loss and set the new home win streak record. The fact this game means something for the Oilers is the best they could have hoped for given their record over the past decade
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12-23-2015, 04:13 PM
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BOA interesting fact #1: The Calgary Flames have a 43-19-2 v. the Oilers since the '05 lockout (64 games). The Flames have not lost a season series outright to the Oilers since 2000-01
BOA interesting fact #2: Since the shootout was introduced in 2005, The Oilers have beaten the Flames only once in a SO. Fernando Pisani is the only Oilers player to ever score a SO winner on the Flames (and it was more than a decade ago - Nov 25, 2005).
BOA interesting fact #3: The last Oiler to score an OT goal v. the Flames was Shawn Horcoff on Mar 16, 2006
BOA (known) fact #4: Oilers=NG
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12-23-2015, 04:52 PM
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Are the Flames fans nervous about the possibility of a no-good team playing gooder than the Flames?
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