[News] Glencross returns to Calgary for injury evaluation - Calgarypuck Forums - The Unofficial Calgary Flames Fan Community

MrMastodonFarm · 11-05-2013, 09:39 PM

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Glencross returning to Calgary for further evaluation..Lower body injury. #Flames.

Two games left on the roadtrip.

DOOM · 11-05-2013, 09:40 PM

Sucks that Glencross is hurt.

Hopefully one of Knight/Horak/Reinhart/Hanowski/etc gets called up.

Cali Panthers Fan · 11-05-2013, 09:40 PM

Bummer. Knee? Foot? Hip? Does anyone know?

Rerun · 11-05-2013, 09:43 PM

I'm not that upset. The rest will do him some good. He's been working way too hard every game.

nik- · 11-05-2013, 09:44 PM

Reminds me of his injury last year? ... or the year before? He went into the boards a little funny and it didn't look like much, but boom ... injured.

JobHopper · 11-05-2013, 09:50 PM

That's to bad and hopefully it's nothing to serious.

Give someone in Abbotsford an opportunity, I think I would like to see Corban Knight up here for a game or 2. Even Max Reinhart, who most likely will stay up here on the Flames team.

EVERLAST · 11-05-2013, 09:54 PM

lllll

FBI · 11-05-2013, 10:00 PM

meh.. he deserved to sit a few games anyway (according to Hartley's earned not given BS)

Hope he's not out TOO long though.

killer_carlson · 11-05-2013, 10:04 PM

He has been great the last 5 games and found his stride. Bad news. Hope he is ok.

MrMastodonFarm · 11-05-2013, 10:08 PM

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Originally Posted by killer_carlson

He has been great the last 5 games and found his stride. Bad news. Hope he is ok.

Nah, he really hasn't. He still makes lazy plays. He stupid soft backhand clear lead directly to a goal and he did the exact same thing a couple shifts later that thankfully didn't cost us a goal against again.

Guy just doesn't have the punch in his game he used to.

squiggs96 · 11-05-2013, 10:08 PM

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Originally Posted by FBI

meh.. he deserved to sit a few games anyway (according to Hartley's earned not given BS)

Hope he's not out TOO long though.

He's been excellent lately. There are many other threads to constantly complain about him. This is not the one.

Savvy27 · 11-05-2013, 10:13 PM

Call up Beartschi from the bench.

Rerun · 11-05-2013, 10:16 PM

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Originally Posted by killer_carlson

He has been great the last 5 games and found his stride.

Not tonight he wasn't. Some of the plays he made looked pretty lazy/disinterested.

FBI · 11-05-2013, 10:27 PM

Disagree.. bad game today, good game yesterday, meh before that..
But you are right this is the injury thread so I won't bash him..

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Originally Posted by squiggs96

He's been excellent lately. There are many other threads to constantly complain about him. This is not the one.

puckluck2 · 11-05-2013, 10:44 PM

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Originally Posted by killer_carlson

He has been great the last 5 games and found his stride. Bad news. Hope he is ok.

This a joke? He will always get his points but like Burke said there are 3 zones and he's awful in two of them when he is pouting which has been all year long.

killer_carlson · 11-05-2013, 10:52 PM

No, not a joke. Calling the facts as i see them. Glencross cant Do anything right for some on the board. Hell, he was catching grief for being excited he scored in the final minute three games ago.

The guy is as consistent an offensive player we've had not named Iginla over the last four seasons. His injury was severe enough h e left the road trip. It is a bad thing. He was our leading goal scorer last season and among our team leaders this season, whether you want to admit it or not.

The only reason someone can OBJECTiVELY be excited or this is if you hope we tank the season for the first overall draft pick. At least have the guts to admit it.

MrMastodonFarm · 11-05-2013, 11:07 PM

I don't even know where to start with that post, killer. You're all over the place. Atleast have the guts to admit it? What are you ranting about. I'm excited about the plethora of young players that have played this year that seem to play with some jump and enthusiasm and am excited for the vets that do as well. Hudler, Stempniak, Cammalari are all guys that seem to have bought into it bringing some emotion to their game. Glencross unfortunately is just flat out lazy at times. That's calling me calling the facts as I see them and as most see them too.

When Glencross came to Calgary he was a buzzsaw, he was that same player that seemed to kill us in games when he was with the Bluejackets and then the Oilers. He was a hard player to play against, skated hard, hit hard and was a little buzzsaw on the bottom lines. He found a good scoring touch and chemistry with Jokinen and ever since he's been a scorer, going back a couple years now, he's turned into a bit of a baby, whether you want to admit it or not.

If Curtis turns into that two-way energy player again and holds onto the offense too, I'll be the first one to be beyond happy for it, but it ain't happening and until it does you're just going to have to live with the hate he receives.

He's lazy, he'd rather whiff off a soft little backhand then work to get to a better position.

puckluck2 · 11-05-2013, 11:19 PM

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Originally Posted by killer_carlson

No, not a joke. Calling the facts as i see them. Glencross cant Do anything right for some on the board. Hell, he was catching grief for being excited he scored in the final minute three games ago.

The guy is as consistent an offensive player we've had not named Iginla over the last four seasons. His injury was severe enough h e left the road trip. It is a bad thing. He was our leading goal scorer last season and among our team leaders this season, whether you want to admit it or not.

The only reason someone can OBJECTiVELY be excited or this is if you hope we tank the season for the first overall draft pick. At least have the guts to admit it.

Like I said, there are 3 ZONES! Glencross hasn't shown effort in 2 of those zones all year and has been inconsistent in the offensive zone all year. I am just stating the facts as I see them as well.

He has the third worst plus/minus on this team and it's really no surprise. He has pouted all year probably because he wasn't named captain and has been hot garbage in 90% of the games and even in games he scores he looks awful but has a heck of a shot and offensive instincts that he will collect his points but no team will go anywhere with a Curtis Glencross playing the way he has been playing.

When he is on 29 other teams would LOVE him on their team and that is a fact but it is time he stops pouting and puts in the effort in every zone because frankly he looks like an Oiler out there skating around without a purpose.

And yeah I really want the Flames to tank. You got me there.

neo45 · 11-05-2013, 11:23 PM

I think people are being selective in their memory if they think that Glencross was a completely different player when he first came to town.

Even when he first joined the Flames he was a streaky player. He disappeared completely in the playoffs against Chicago. He still took stupid penalties and was constantly in the coach's doghouse, Brent's especially. Sure his line occasionally played a straight-line style of hockey, when he was on a line with Moss and Conroy. When he was moved up to play with Iginla or Jokinen he would play just like he does today, with his awful drop passes at the blue line. A player will usually look slightly different playing on the 3rd line vs playing on the top line

He is just that type of player and 5 seasons for the Flames should be enough for people to accept it. An example of a player that did change his game completely and for the worse while a member of the Flames would be Rene Bourque.

Calgary4LIfe · 11-05-2013, 11:39 PM

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I think people are being selective in their memory if they think that Glencross was a completely different player when he first came to town.

Even when he first joined the Flames he was a streaky player. He disappeared completely in the playoffs against Chicago. He still took stupid penalties and was constantly in the coach's doghouse, Brent's especially. Sure his line occasionally played a straight-line style of hockey, when he was on a line with Moss and Conroy. When he was moved up to play with Iginla or Jokinen he would play just like he does today, with his awful drop passes at the blue line. A player will usually look slightly different playing on the 3rd line vs playing on the top line

He is just that type of player and 5 seasons for the Flames should be enough for people to accept it. An example of a player that did change his game completely and for the worse while a member of the Flames would be Rene Bourque.

I agree with everything you said except that he did change one facet of his game - his physicality. He used to hit much more and skate much more. He seems to not be moving as much out there, and seems to play a way less physical of a game than he used to. Offensively and play-wise - definitely agree. Inconsistency is what makes him a bargain player. If he was consistent, he would be a high-salaried player. That is who he is.