[GT] Flames vs Leafs Game Thread I Guess

[Enoch Root]

Originally Posted by GioforPM

Joe is kinda like Yzerman for me, or maybe Sakic/Jagr/Forsberg/Hawerchuk. Phenomenal numbers, and maybe a bit unlucky historically as far as who else was playing in his time. Lack of a cup probably doesn’t help his cause as well.

Good comparisons.

Hall of Famers, all. Among the best 50 players of all time.

Not generational players.

Jagr is debatable (but I would vote no)

[Textcritic]

Originally Posted by Enoch Root

the fact that Crosby and Ovechkin played at the same time does not help your argument for Thornton

No, but it completely devastates the idea of only one "generational player" per generation.

I am not that attached to the label for Thornton. It struck me as an interesting question.

[DeluxeMoustache]

Originally Posted by soulchoice

As much as Iggy was phenomenal, no he wasn’t generational.

Totally agreed, and I think he and Thornton are in that tier of awesome below generational

[CroFlames]

Chances are most of us don’t see another player score 700+ goals in our lifetime.

To suggest Ovi isn’t generational is comical.

Crosby being in the league at the same time had no bearing on Ovi’s status.

[BigBrodieFan]

Originally Posted by Strange Brew

Yeah it’s a bit of a haul into the heart of the city for you. But the restaurants are plentiful. Just look at the waistline of most Houstonians!

Brodie has made some nice plays tonight. Stripping the puck a few times.

Gotta believe that’s a team that can really make good use of his skating and passing ability.

My youngest son is dating someone who lives downtown by the Rice campus and he’s discovering a lot of cool places!

TJ has been playing his best defense by far, and that’s his exact role in Toronto. They want him to allow Reilly to move and jump the rush and TJ to be the clutch d-man and it’s working well. That being said, so very grateful for the time he spent in Calgary and I know we all still cheer for the Flames. I mean, 10 years was a long time and we all grew to love the team. Miss seeing him wearing #7, but the Flames foundation built him to be such a strong, confident player.

[GioforPM]

That Marner diagonal cut across the middle - Johnny used to do that and I wish he’d bring it back.

[DeluxeMoustache]

Originally Posted by BigBrodieFan

My youngest son is dating someone who lives downtown by the Rice campus and he’s discovering a lot of cool places!

TJ has been playing his best defense by far, and that’s his exact role in Toronto. They want him to allow Reilly to move and jump the rush and TJ to be the clutch d-man and it’s working well. That being said, so very grateful for the time he spent in Calgary and I know we all still cheer for the Flames. I mean, 10 years was a long time and we all grew to love the team. Miss seeing him wearing #7, but the Flames foundation built him to be such a strong, confident player.

It’s those strengths that helped Gio get his Norris, and cool to see in Toronto

[Enoch Root]

Originally Posted by Textcritic

No, but it completely devastates the idea of only one "generational player" per generation.

I am not that attached to the label for Thornton. It struck me as an interesting question.

Generational means you have the talent level that is seen about once a generation. It doesn't mean there can't be another one at the same time.

Gretzky and Lemieux overlapped.

Howe overlapped Richard, then Orr.

[Manhattanboy]

Who is gonna be our hero here?

I’m gonna say Dube.

[Jig]

Leaves are playing like garbage the flames can generate nothing offensively zero chemistry

[JurassicTunga12]

The longer this tie goes, can't help but think one of the Leafs top guys are going to break through like McLottery the other night, and that'll be all she wrote.

[Manhattanboy]

Originally Posted by JurassicTunga12

The longer this tie goes, can't help but think one of the Leafs top guys are going to break through like McLottery the other night, and that'll be all she wrote.

That is how the screenplay reads.

[Strange Brew]

Ovechkin is a generational player by any measure unless it’s smoke pedantic interpretation of a generation.

Thornton vs Iginla is interesting. Iggy gets my totally free from bias vote.

[Mr.Coffee]

Calgary is awful offensively

[timbit]

Originally Posted by JurassicTunga12

The longer this tie goes, can't help but think one of the Leafs top guys are going to break through like McLottery the other night, and that'll be all she wrote.

Are you not confident that a Flames top guy will “break through”?

[1qqaaz]

Originally Posted by Enoch Root

Generational means you have the talent level that is seen about once a generation. It doesn't mean there can't be another one at the same time.

Gretzky and Lemieux overlapped.

Howe overlapped Richard, then Orr.

Jagr overlapped Gretzky, Lemieux, Crosby, Ovechkin and McDavid.
Is he not generational?

I would say he is, because he won 4 consecutive Art Ross trophies and is 2nd all time in points.

[Manhattanboy]

I hate this.

[Goriders]

Omfg

Please end this season god

[neo45]

I don’t know what Ritchie was thinking there standing up at the blue line

[flamingred89]

Haha. Just another blown lead. Nothing to see here. Bad team is just bad.