[PGT] Broons 4 Flams 3

[Kovaz]

After 30 seconds of thought, next game I'd start with:

Gaudreau-Lindholm-Ryan
Tkachuk-Backlund-Mangiapane
Lucic-Bennett-Dube
Jankowski-Monahan-Rieder

Just get Monahan to start competing. 5 games in a row of skating hard to loose pucks and grinding in the corners before he'd get a sniff of top line minutes again.

[GioforPM]

Originally Posted by Flamenspiel

Na, Flames were not that bad. They are missing their two best defencemen and the Bruins are a great team. Sam Bennett totally outclassed Ryan as a third line centre. That line almost singlehandedly brought the Flames back into it. I wonder what Ryan would get us in a trade, maybe a couple of picks.

TBF, Ryan played sick.

[calgaryred]

Originally Posted by bigpete

Maybe I just wasnt being very observant but did Lindholm even touch the puck tonight? I hardly remember hearing his name.

He assisted on Johnny's goal

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[OldSam]

It was the Bruins. Great coach. Determined, dedicated players that don't give up. Pleased with the pushback. For fricks sake, stop switching everything around, coach.

Know why the Bruins are so good? The coach puts the players together and let's them figure it out. Bergeron is a very, very special player.

[Karl]

This loss was a much, MUCH better effort than a lot of their wins of late.

[timbit]

Originally Posted by Flamenspiel

Na, Flames were not that bad. They are missing their two best defencemen and the Bruins are a great team. Sam Bennett totally outclassed Ryan as a third line centre. That line almost singlehandedly brought the Flames back into it. I wonder what Ryan would get us in a trade, maybe a couple of picks.

Ryan’s been a much better player, at both ends of the ice, than Sam.

Since he got here.

[AustinL_NHL]

Originally Posted by AC

When Chucky is off, he's one of our worst players with all his unnecessarily fancy passes to the other team. Terrible choices with the puck all night.

Felt like he and Hanifin killed the finally 1:30 by themselves.

Johnny had a great game, yet had 0 shots on 2 breakaways. There's the game right there unfortunately.

I think he's feeling the pressure of literally having to be the one to do it all on our team.

The last 4 weeks, he's added the role of fighting to energize the team to his repertoire on top of everything else he does and he still has points in 11 of his last 12 games.

Definitely a poor game for him but he's one of the few trying to do whatever he can to help the team

[BigRed]

Flames owned the 3rd against the league's best team in a one-goal game. It was a great effort and they deserved better. Some of the moaning here is absurd. And yes, Monahan was invisble, but Bergeron has that effect on the best of them.

[Samonadreau]

Originally Posted by Jiggy_12

The last 90 seconds gave me a headache. No structure or gameplan, just 6 skaters moving around at random.

Why even bother taking a timeout... oh wait, they didnt?

[CalgaryFan1988]

Originally Posted by AustinL_NHL

Not sure how anyone can consider a game where the Flames were out-shot 23-18, out-chanced 21-17, out-high danger chanced 9-5 and had an xGF% of 41.62% 5v5 a "good game" just because it was against the best team in the NHL.

I guess the positive to that is the majority of us are recognizing the Flames don't have even close to what it takes to make any noise in the Playoffs and are happy with poor play like this.

Probably because they lost by a goal and led a couple times. Talbot wasn't spectacular either.

Stats have their place, but there is more to it than just that.

[minnow]

Originally Posted by bax

Gaudreau was buzzing all night. That’s a positive. Don’t know what has happened to Monahan. Not confident at all

I think he still looks tentative, he's checking everything out before he commits to anything. Is he hurt, scared, what?

[dino7c]

Originally Posted by AustinL_NHL

Not sure how anyone can consider a game where the Flames were out-shot 23-18, out-chanced 21-17, out-high danger chanced 9-5 and had an xGF% of 41.62% 5v5 a "good game" just because it was against the best team in the NHL.

I guess the positive to that is the majority of us are recognizing the Flames don't have even close to what it takes to make any noise in the Playoffs and are happy with poor play like this.

What do you want us all to cry? Flames missing half their top 4 D played a decent game against the leagues top team. It is what it is, difference in the game was a bounce or two

[midniteowl]

Originally Posted by calgaryred

Unless Flames win it gets pretty dark in here at times. I agree after the 1st I thought Flames were going to get killed but they shut down the Bruins shots on goal pretty good and turned it up in the 3rd.

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Sigh, it gets dark sometimes even when Flames win.

[Samonadreau]

Originally Posted by BigRed

Flames owned the 3rd against the league's best team in a one-goal game. It was a great effort and they deserved better. Some of the moaning here is absurd. And yes, Monahan was invisble, but Bergeron has that effect on the best of them.

I read: "they tried really hard but the other teams players are better then ours."

[Psytic]

They gave a solid effort.That's all I've ever asked. I can't be mad at this game. Ward had them ready to play a full 60 minutes. If one of those weird bounces went the Flames way then they win. They would beat most teams on any given night with that effort.

[AustinL_NHL]

Originally Posted by GioforPM

Most of the stat differential likely occurred in the first period. They played the best team in the league pretty even the second and third. They are playing with three defencemen who wouldn’t be in the lineup if the Flames were healthy. They had a lot of effort. That’s why it was a good game.

You are correct. The Flames were very even with the Bruins the final 40 and arguably outplayed them, but overall they were still outplayed and didn't come away with a point.

The Oilers were without the best player in the world and their #1 defenseman but still escaped with a point.

The Flames have had a lot of luck over the years in terms of injuries and have barely moved in the standings since the injuries struck so using that as an excuse isn't that valid

[Flash Walken]

Originally Posted by Samonadreau

I read: "they tried really hard but the other teams players are better then ours."

is that honestly so bad?

[AC]

Originally Posted by Saint Troy

Nonsense, he’s the only guy that consistently gives a F on this team.

Sure, but to what end?

I liked his fight, but did he do anything offensively? Only time I noticed him with the puck was when he was turning it over to a Bruin, or passing it away when he had the puck in the slot with a good chance to shoot.

Chucky is probably my favourite Flame, but he's now our highest paid player and seems to only show up for half the games lately.

[Samonadreau]

Originally Posted by Flash Walken

is that honestly so bad?

Dude, you're the king of 'is it so bad?'. Sit this one out.

[direwolf]

Originally Posted by 81MC

I must be a total homer, I thought that was a pretty close game? Bruins had the edge for half of the first, otherwise I thought the flames played pretty well. Let’s not forget, Boston is looking like Cup favourites right now. Not sure the flames loooked anywhere near as bad as some make it sound.

They gave it a good fight, for sure. They lost the game because they took their foot off the gas after Boston made it 3-2, and then the Bruins completely took over for a while. Flames didn't really start pushing again until late in the 2nd. Then I thought they dominated most of the 3rd, but just couldn't find the back of the net.

Inconsistency is still the Flames' biggest issue and has been for a while now. Not sure what the fix is, but I think an experienced motivational coach would certainly help.