Tomorrow is the perfect game for Smith. Prove it or lose it. Rittich is ready to take over, can Smith keep up?
Love to see him rise to the occassion. If not, hand the keys over to Rittich.
Absolutely agree. Tomorrow has got to be about Smith's last chance to rebound before Rittich gets a big run of games. Peters isn't dumb, and he's suffered with poor goaltending before, his patience for Smith figuring it out must be wearing thin.
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Absolutely agree. Tomorrow has got to be about Smith's last chance to rebound before Rittich gets a big run of games. Peters isn't dumb, and he's suffered with poor goaltending before, his patience for Smith figuring it out must be wearing thin.
To boot the players seem to play hard for Rittich, not that they don't play hard for Smith. They seem determined to block pucks for Rittich and do whatever it takes to win. They seem to play for each other.
A little bittersweet. In Vegas for a few days and got here just in time to rush to the sportbook to put money on the over and Flames to cover. The spread was 1.5 so there was good money on Flames to cover.
When I saw it 1-0 right away I was dancing.
Flames shouldn’t be a favorite tomorrow so will take them to win. We’ll see about the over.
To boot the players seem to play hard for Rittich, not that they don't play hard for Smith. They seem determined to block pucks for Rittich and do whatever it takes to win. They seem to play for each other.
Which begs the question if the rest of the locker room are just tired of Smith constantly calling out people and would rather rally behind Rittich
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I’m fully on board the tankwagon, but we can make some pit stops to beat our division rivals.. please
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So, to continue my questionable trend of making jokes that are clearly terrible in the hopes that at least one person laughs, it's safe to say that if the Flames win this game then Calgary supports people losing their homes, right?
Or is it like a Groundhogs Day thing? If the Kings lose tonight, another 6 months of raging fires?
At least I remembered to get beer this time.
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Please play better. Even if you lose, just stop playing defeated
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Let's see if the hype died with the last game.
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What's up all you beautiful drunken animals? I have four fewer bones in my skull since the last time I talked to yall, and boy howdy is that painful. I was gonna make a Mike Richards joke since I'm on Oxycodone for all the pain, but I'm too loopy to come up with it. I will say, I would literally kill a man for the ability to eat a cheeseburger right now. I never realized how much I took the ability to eat solid foods for granted until I lost it.
I have no idea what to expect tonight. I did not agree with most of you guys about last game, I actually think we played rather well against the Wild on Thursday. We lost, but it was a good loss, and we played some really quality hockey. Which I guess is not what most of you guys thought haha.
I'm just hoping for a good game, I've been sitting in bed with guass shoved in my face hole all day with nothing to do and no one to talk to, so either way this will be a nice distraction.
I also ####ing hate Calgary so I'm really hoping the Kings can give us a win tonight and ease the pain of how this season is going. Win or lose this year, I'd like to at least beat our division rivals.
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Fun Kings facts:
In 4 of their 5 wins, the Kings have scored exactly 4 goals, and scored 3 goals in their only other win thus far.
In every single one of their losses, the Kings have scored 2 or less goals. In 4 of those games they scored 2 goals, and only a single goal in 6 losses.
9 losses have also been when they allowed 3 or more goals.
Struggling to score goals and to keep pucks out of their net are recipes for disaster, hence, they are the 31st ranked team in the NHL for those reasons.
In more positive news, this took place 11 years ago. Eerily enough, they also adorned specially worn patches that night to auction off the jerseys as part of a fundraiser to help aid firefighters.
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As cheesy as it sounds, this seems like almost exactly what some of these guys have needed--simply a mindset coach. How often have we said they were unprepared for a game?
We'll see how long it lasts, but they're making, for the most part, crisp, creative plays fearlessly, executing tape to tape passes finally, starting the game properly, and physically and emotionally engaged in puck battles.
Maybe some of the newer guys need x and o reinforcement, but the decade old vets just need a continual kick in the ass and someone to tighten frankenstein's screws.
GKG!
Friendship Tour
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When ######bag Keith Tkachuk destroyed his Nagano hotel room out of spite for being ####ty in the 1998 Olympics, I remember specifically thinking: “The son of this guy is going to be a real piece of #### ####### mother####er.”
Look at me now.
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A team with Neal and Tkachuk....
Idk how to feel
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Lets play some big willie style hockey!! Somebody flatten the horrible little ****.
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Wish Doughty had the stones to drop em with Tkachuk to try to spark the team.
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The only thing missing from this game is a doughty meltdown
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If he could handle himself, sure. I think Doughty would get slapped around in all honesty, he's all yap.
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And once again a-hole Tkchuck shoots snow at the goalie by accident.
The Hammer Falls
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Ah. So it's going to be one of those nights. Great.
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annnnnd we suck.
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Easy mode for the Flames.
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Why are Kings players afraid of covering the points?
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That didnt take long. One guy falls down in the nuetral zone and is a mess afterwards.
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Nobody is stepping up at the blueline. Calgary is just walking right in.
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let's just fire our coach after every game, as a wake up call
Really Tilted Ice
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The Kings still don't have a shot on goal yet...
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Can this team learn how to freakin pass the puck. My GOD, Oates has his hands full
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Took only seven minutes to get their first shot. Huzzah!
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The way the seasons going, the Kings and Hawks could be playing for the top pick.
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Lol they deserve a 3-0 lead. We ####ing suck
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2 passes and its out of the zone by the Flames. It takes the Kings 4 and then give it right back.
If I'm going to go full silver-lining homer, I'm going to say "The kind of run it would take to make the playoffs at this point would scare the **** out of any opponent worse than 2012."
Instead I'm going to say blow it all up and let the Ontario Reign play here all year and let manchester play in ontario so we can get a number of first round picks in a good draft.
Guys like Carter and Brown, maybe Muzzin were previously untradeable but they're showing well, will have some value.
I'm only disappointed that the signs of life they showed the other night were just a last gasp sputter, no one on this roster can be assed to finish a check, never mind facewash anyone. Guys just skating into Campbell fearlessly, what ****. Call up MacDermid and Imama, at least the youngsters will be protected on our way to #1.
The Wrong Side of Special Teams
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3 best chances on the pp came by the Flames.
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this is the kinda season and really, game, that I would like to see Iafallo say "#### it i'll do it myself".
Get selfish dude, take some shots
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Our powerplay is so much ass. We have to be the league leader in dump and chase, right? How many ####ing times do we dump the puck? I'm sick of it. The two games we stopped doing that and actually entered the zone with speed, we actually scored goals and won. Now we're back to ####ing dump and chase.
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We look so terrible I may be on the Hughes bandwagon soon...
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painful to watch this pp!
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****, Kopitar is garbage.
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This game is so dull that even Faust and Fox are bantering about some inane things that don't relate to the game.
Kopitar looks so bad there has to be something going on at home. Death? Divorce? Desertion?
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**** this ***** league.
Nice product they put out
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****ing impotent. 5 of some of the more talented players in the league should be able to get a chance... Skate it in the middle, ****ing fire it toward the net, just do something other than bumble it around along the boards. I would trade away all of our talented players so that the DNA of that dumbass powerplay style gets purged from our lineup forever.
The Chronicles of Rittich
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I don’t think it would be going out on a limb to say Rittich is going to get a shutout tonight.
Building sounds dead.
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The Flames have the book on the Kings and started their backup, Rittich.
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Faust: La kings have yet to be shut out this year
CHALLENGE ACCEPTED
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Rittich is in and he’s actually been better than Smith this year. Wouldn’t be suprised if he took over as the number one guy there.
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Shutout
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Hamonic will get the first star of the game. Rittich second for just being in net and getting an easy night off against the Kings.
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Damn. First time the Kings have been shutout this year...so we got that going for us.
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Weak shutout, low shot total and crappy breakouts all night. Sux to be a Kings fan right now.
Oh no! We suck again!
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Second straight Saturday night where the Flames play against a lackluster opponent.
Must be nice ...
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Except we lose to lackluster opponents.
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Hathaway is such a loser, sprays the goalie with snow, and somehow the lames end up on the powerplay.
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Sam Bennett is such a punk *****.
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Get ready for the refs to royally fist-**** the Oilers next Saturday. I'm predicting around seven powerplays for Calgary.
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Rittich looks like he’s due to get a shutout .
Shutout shutout shutout.
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For **** sakes . Of course the guy I’m facing in Yahoo fantasy has Rittich.
Thanks for nothing Kings.
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Glad we got the win and Rittich the shut out, D played great but man what a dull game couldn't wait for it to be over.
That's what happens when the NHL schedules a game same day only hours after an NBA game. That ice was garbage after the first period and just got worse in the third.
can anyone believe that we nabbed Rittich out of a random Czech league? He has really come into his own
Czech Superliga is the same league Dominik Hasek, Jaromir Jagr, Jiri Hudler, Michael Frolik were from. It's not a random league, it's one of the better European leagues after the KHL and SHL. IIRC it's considered a better league than the Swiss league and not far behind the FEL. But yes it's definitely nice to have the scouts discover an NHLer outside of North America. Our Euro scouts are usually pretty bad.
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Czech Superliga is the same league Dominik Hasek, Jaromir Jagr, Jiri Hudler, Michael Frolik were from. It's not a random league, it's one of the better European leagues after the KHL and SHL. IIRC it's considered a better league than the Swiss league and not far behind the FEL. But yes it's definitely nice to have the scouts discover an NHLer outside of North America. Our Euro scouts are usually pretty bad.
You're right, random league wasn't the right term. Just nice that the Flames were able sign a guy with no pedigree who has turned into such a quality player in 3 years. A late bloomer for sure.
