[GT] Calgary Flames at Montreal Canadiens

[WhiteTiger]

*Gets home from work. Tunes in. Sees the game at 3-0 already. Turns game off*

Today was ####ty enough. I don't need this ####, too.

[The Boy Wonder]

Originally Posted by Burning Beard

Is this honestly the best bottom 6 we can ice? For crying in a bucket let some hungry kids play

Nah keep the kids away from this toxic lazy core...

Don’t want them learning bad habits

[home_sweet_dome]

Reality kicking in. Flames will be fighting with the nucks and oilers for the last playoff spot. Habs, leafs and jets are all better.

The flames are who we all know they are - a mediocre capped out team and I think that's what they'll top out as in the Tre era.

[Infinit47]

Leivo the worst passer I have ever seen in the NHL.

[FiveSeven]

I was so excited for hockey to be back. This ain't relief, it just makes me feel worse.

[Rejean31]

This team spends more time moving away from the opposing net. Always going backwards. It is infuriating.

[Barnet Flame]

Originally Posted by Aarongavey

Pretty hard to blame the coach though, the players play the game. Can't blame the GM, he has put together a pretty good team on paper, the pieces are there.

Kind of like mid range ski equipment at a yard sale.

[Harry Lime]

I keep seeing one player hustling around and setting themselves up to deliver a bone crushing hit, and every time it's been Johnny, who peels off at the last second. Just once I would like to see him launch into Weber or something. That might wake up the team.

[Aarongavey]

Originally Posted by Toonage

Chicken & egg though. Players are good soldiers, try to carry out the game plan.

I was just trying to cover all the arguments for why Ward and Treliving should not carry any water for the mediocrity that is the Calgary Flames.

[DomeFoam]

Originally Posted by CalgaryFan1988

IF they were so great, they wouldn't have had to come back so much.

I hope the Flames get better, because I love watching them, but in '14 they were just another inconsistent team. I'm so tired of people missing a Hartley team that was nothing but mediocre.

I never said they were great, I said I missed the identity - that they were down but never out. Maybe we can agree it was at least exciting.

[ComixZone]

How did Backlund not see Gaudreau had a clear lane on that rush? Instead he dumps it into the corner where no one has a chance to catch up to it.

Mikael Backlund absolutely sucks.

[Bunk]

Who knew the team could do f-all without Dillon Dube.

[AC]

We almost never generate an odd man rush for anymore either, yet we seem to give up 5-10 a game.

The team almost exclusively seems to try and scrum the puck along the boards for a pass back to the point followed by an unscreened shot that doesn't lead to anything.

I don't get it.

[Red]

Originally Posted by Aarongavey

Pretty hard to blame the coach though, the players play the game. Can't blame the GM, he has put together a pretty good team on paper, the pieces are there.

Paper means nothing. This team has no balls. Bunch of guys just going through motion.

[Enoch Root]

Originally Posted by Aarongavey

Pretty hard to blame the coach though, the players play the game. Can't blame the GM, he has put together a pretty good team on paper, the pieces are there.

Every time the Flames move through the neutral zone, the forwards are standing still. Zero speed, zero transition.

I won't excuse the players, but I can't excuse the coach either

[2ArmBands]

Is hitting still allowed in the NHL?

[ComixZone]

Originally Posted by AC

We almost never generate an odd man rush for anymore either, yet we seem to give up 5-10 a game.

The team almost exclusively seems to try and scrum the puck along the boards for a pass back to the point followed by an unscreened shot that doesn't lead to anything.

I don't get it.

I actually think it’s a belief of “how the game should be played” by Treliving at this stage. If it wasn’t, then why does every coach he hires coach it?

It is baffling.

[Flamesforever99]

Don'y understand why Tre didn't claim Perry off Waivers, he literally does more than both Leivo and Simon combined. Here we are again, Johnny and Monny don't have a permanent line mate and heading into the deadline the talk around town is gonna be that we need another forward and we're gonna trade for one. Ain't happening, we all fell for that one, one too many times all Tre is gonna do is drive up the value on the players available and back out like he always does. This team has been broken since the post all star break in 2019........and the trade we've been waiting for to happen, likely won't. Oh well mediocrity isn't bad imagine being an oilers fan, now that's sad.

[Otto-matic]

Originally Posted by AC

We almost never generate an odd man rush for anymore either, yet we seem to give up 5-10 a game.

The team almost exclusively seems to try and scrum the puck along the boards for a pass back to the point followed by an unscreened shot that doesn't lead to anything.

I don't get it.

This team needs to stop following the game plan to a T. It seems like whenever something changes they lose all their focus and can't regroup.

[Toonage]

Wow. Montreal penalty!