[PGT] Flames lose in OT: Season Over

[Plett Me Tell You]

The team built for the playoffs tuned off the tough tap? Deer in the headlights, pucks in skates, kid gloves for McDavid, Backlund your best player... ? The Oilers just knocked the San which out of my mouth. Please don’t hang the Pacific banner for a couple years, and do it without fanfare.

Kudos to CP. enjoy the ride every time I’m here. Be well all.

[PlayfulGenius]

Originally Posted by SutterBrother

We would have missed the playoffs.

Gio would’ve been better than Hanifin in this series.

[GioforPM]

Originally Posted by Ashasx

something tells me the extent of his injury has been exaggerated to sensationalize the oilers

I’ve never seen anyone play like that with a high ankle sprain. Rene Bourque had one and was out for a couple months.

[KootenayFlamesFan]

Originally Posted by Manhattanboy

Just saw the OT replay. Why was Hanafin so soft on the puck? Just coughed it up.

Johnny was floating around too.

Just a weird series for this team. Just played completely different from everything that made them successful all season. Just.....strange.

[Southside403]

Originally Posted by PlayfulGenius

This is where I’m leaning, too … Vladar should’ve been in goal for Game 4. Sutter should’ve recognized they only needed average goaltending to beat the Oilers, Vladar likely provides that.

Markstrom is normally so strong positionally but he lost his net and many of the goals in this series. Many of the goals would’ve simply hit a goalie that was in proper position, that was the difference in the series.

I’m not concerned about Marky moving forward, he’s a great goalie. He wasn’t on his game for whatever reason. Everyone could see that, so I don’t get why he was in there the past 2 games.

It was hard to watch Hanifin struggle all series. I was concerned before the season started, thinking he wasn’t a top pairing guy, but I felt he proved me wrong all season … but he just couldn’t keep up in this series… hard to know what to make of that for next season.

It’s true that the players didn’t play well, but I felt Woodcroft out coached Sutter, too. I just didn’t see any adjustments made, at all.

Sutter doesn't get out coached we have the best coaching staff in the NHL. The players are who failed not the coach

[cannon7]

Originally Posted by SutterBrother

You’re the one with the idiot comment about him being a UFA. Get over yourself, and thank him for educating you.

Another poster already corrected me and did so in a respectful way. I admitted I was wrong to that poster, calling it "wishful thinking" on my part.

But yeah, making a mistake on a player's UFA status means I'm not a true fan. #### both of you.

[GullFoss]

Im not overly upset or disappointed. Flames got some real playoff experience this year. A lot of our core players looked mentally exhausted by the end of the series. Lots of mental mistakes.

They were good enough on paper. But they didn't have enough in them for a long run. It's okay. guys like Kylington, Anderson, Tkachuk, Lindholm, Hanifin, Dube, Mangiapane, etc will leave this season with a better understanding of what's required to win

Big off-season ahead. It's okay guys.

[GioforPM]

Originally Posted by KootenayFlamesFan

Johnny was floating around too.

Just a weird series for this team. Just played completely different from everything that made them successful all season. Just.....strange.

I think Johnny guessed, wrongly, that Draisaitl would try to pass to the point, and he was trying to pick it off. He should have known Draisaitl will always look for McDavid.

[AC]

Originally Posted by GioforPM

I’ve never seen anyone play like that with a high ankle sprain. Rene Bourque had one and was out for a couple months.

I think the most likely explanation is Draisaitl wasn't injured nearly as much as the media claimed.

Just like when McDavid overcame the plague and 20 other health issues.

[dino7c]

It will feel better when the Oilers get pounded next round...robbed of a game 6 at least though

[Flamesfan05]

Originally Posted by Manhattanboy

Just saw the OT replay. Why was Hanafin so soft on the puck? Just coughed it up.

Both him and Johnny…..done it all series. Real character players

I still want Johnny back though. Without him we have no offense and he is a fun player to watch

Hanifin, I don’t give a damn

[bigpete]

Woodcroft: Ya we were pretty confident when they were reviewing it that the goal would be called back.

Ya right you howdy doody prick, you f###ing liar, everyone and their dog assumed that it was going to be a good goal.

I saw the review a bunch of times while it was under review. I was not nervous a bit because it seemed like such an easy obvious call.

Unbelievable. Just an atrocious call, simply awful.

[Flamesfan05]

Originally Posted by dino7c

It will feel better when the Oilers get pounded next round

Only a week , max 2 of sadness

[dino7c]

Originally Posted by Flamesfan05

Only a week , max 2 of sadness

It will feel good as they are losing

[CGY12]

McDavid does things I've never seen a player do in my life. He literally can just flip a switch and make everybody look like an a$$ clown, the stuff you see in minor hockey. It absolutely sucks that they fluked out and won a lottery to get him. He also gives the entire team a bunch of swagger. Sucks

[Flamesfan74]

Originally Posted by Manhattanboy

Just saw the OT replay. Why was Hanafin so soft on the puck? Just coughed it up.

I hate to say it but Johnny is partial responsible for that puck even getting to McDavid. He started to skate towards Leon and Noah but peeled off to cover the point. Had he stayed where he was, he could off intercepted or at least tipped the pass away

[Boreal]

Originally Posted by GioforPM

I’ve never seen anyone play like that with a high ankle sprain. Rene Bourque had one and was out for a couple months.

That. Or the Oilers shortened his career to win a series.

[blender]

Originally Posted by SutterBrother

I defy you to find a single Sutter quote that talked about the Oilers in anything but the most glowing terms.

Not one.

Prove me wrong.

100% correct.
Sutter maintained that Las Vegas and Edmonton were the top tier of the division. He's correct, at least about the Oilers, and truthfully a healthy Vegas is likely the best of the 3.
Flames need to improve for next year to take a real run. Sutter came here to win.
All this tanking BS in another thread is funny because its not even the fact that tanking is ethically bad, it's that to consider tanking next season a possibility for this management group shows a total ignorance of the state of the franchise. Like it or not, they'll be all in next season.

[Zulu29]

Originally Posted by Hockey_Ninja

The medical staff seriously let Tanev play through an injury that requires surgery. Have they not learned anything from what happened to Monny?

You can work through a torn labrum..been there. But it’s very uncomfortable and you have way less strength. Tanev is a damn warrior full stop.

[Gundo]

Expect disappointment and you’ll never be disappointed.