I was listening to 960 after the game and they pointed out that despite the shots being largely in Calgarys favour, high danger chances were 11-10 in favour of the Blackhawks.
Yeah, but that is just shot location. No big deal
Kane’s breakaway is saved by 95 percent of NHL goalies.
But the belly flop ankle save? Aces. Highlight reel and timely for sure
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In 19 games, Hamonic has dealt with a broken jaw, a smash to the mouth losing some teeth, and a gnarly broken nose. And still lays out a huge block to end the game. Yeah, that’s tough.
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In 19 games, Hamonic has dealt with a broken jaw, a smash to the mouth losing some teeth, and a gnarly broken nose. And still lays out a huge block to end the game. Yeah, that’s tough.
He's such a team player. Hamonic is subtly becoming one of my favorite players on the team.
Tough as nail, good defensively (more or less), great in the community, and on a great contract. What's not to like? The acquisition price? I barely even remember that anymore.
Honestly, this whole season is going quite well. I'm pretty happy about it. It's easy to like a lot of the players right now.
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I was at this game with my Dad!!! Was 9 years old. The whistle had already gone for offside but I don’t think Higuita had heard it. It was pretty amazing, and glad they were televising that friendly, or it just wouldn’t exist in preserved form. No instant replay video screens back then at Wembley, either. /segueover.
Good win, sloppy defensive play, even though they dominated the game for a good while out the traps. Will need to tighten that up or they’ll get run around by Columbus. I have faith they will, though.
I think part of the issue is that Flames have been dominating teams of late (a few blowouts and against weaker teams), so when a team pushes back it looks like they're playing sloppy.
I thought the Flames basically dominated/played even for 75-80% of game. All 4 lines had dominate shifts, the PP scored twice and PK was fine. When there were breakdowns (breakaways), Smith bailed out the team -- which he hasn't done very much this year.
Hamonic, Ryan, Bennett, Neal and Smith stood out for me. Flames should be beating the lesser teams in the league which they are doing this year, so I'm happy.
Go Flames Go!
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Only caught bits and pieces of the game but man was Smith a rock at the end. At this point I'm fine with starting him or Rittich next game. Smith has played his way back into contention for the starting role and I don't think Rittich has played his way out of it. Starting either goalie is fine by me right now, I like that I can say that.
Without Crawford the flames would have been up 3-4 goals after the first. So wanted Neal to score when he drove the net through the hawks D. These are the games we used to lose, so pleased to see the win.
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Without Crawford the flames would have been up 3-4 goals after the first. So wanted Neal to score when he drove the net through the hawks D. These are the games we used to lose, so pleased to see the win.
On the flip side - and it's nice to finally be able to say this - but without Smith, we would have lost.
Goaltending was great at both ends last night.
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So wanted Neal to score when he drove the net through the hawks D.
OMG.... I was yelling at my TV for him to score, I want so much for that monkey to be off his back so he can just relax and be himself and SCORE. Can you imagine what a last year's Neal could do for this team... we could easily have a 3 line major scoring threat team (if that makes sense). Neal deserves it too... playing hard.
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OMG.... I was yelling at my TV for him to score, I want so much for that monkey to be off his back so he can just relax and be himself and SCORE. Can you imagine what a last year's Neal could do for this team... we could easily have a 3 line major scoring threat team (if that makes sense). Neal deserves it too... playing hard.
Unlike Brouwer I'm just not worried about Neal. Having a proven, competitive scorer on a depth line is going to be huge in the playoffs.
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