[Game Takes] Blues 4 Flames 2

[Bingo]

Blues 4 Flames 2

- Calgary with good legs throughout the game
- St. Louis with two tipped shots in the third to take the lead and win the game
- Youth served in Calgary with all of Honzek, Gridin and Parekh standing out
- Finishing the issue again for the Flames

[Jiri Hrdina]

"Interesting to see the 2023 and both 2024 first round picks in the first game for the first time."

I mentioned this in the GT but they had all 5 first rounders from 2020-2024:
Parekh, Gridin (2024)
Honzek (2023)
Coronato (2022)
No first in 2021
Zary (2020)

Pretty good.

[Strange Brew]

Finishing is definitely the issue. All goals count, but through three games Flames have scored maybe one goal that didn’t result directly or indirectly from a lucky bounce.

I suppose that explains a lot of goals in the NHL, but the lack of finish is a known thing with this team.

[looooob]

Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina

"Interesting to see the 2023 and both 2024 first round picks in the first game for the first time."

I mentioned this in the GT but they had all 5 first rounders from 2020-2024:
Parekh, Gridin (2024)
Honzek (2023)
Coronato (2022)
No first in 2021
Zary (2020)

Pretty good.

I saw you ask it in the GT not sure if answered- has this been done before by the Flames? I assume not- there were clusters around the early 00s- Phaneuf, Nystrom, Kobasew, Saprkyin and the mid 90s on either side of Morris/Gauthier that looked promising but always something to muck it up


likely the Atlanta Flames did it in 78-79 with a similar breakdown to the current squad


73 Lysiak- traded later that year
74- no first but their 2nd (Chouinard) 28OV did play fwiw
75-Mulhern
76- Shand, Philipoff (traded with Lysiak)
77- no first
78- Marsh


(many of their impact drafted players of that era including the 2 ROYs Plett and Vail and Kenta were drafted in later rounds)

[looooob]

of course I should have said- notwithstanding the pretty recent cluster that I think also did it?


that is Janko-Monahan-Bennett-Tkachuk-Valimaki


I think the group starting with Baertshi did not


either way while jury remains out on Pelletier its been a long time since a total wash first rounder (<200 GP) as opposed to pulling that feat in 5 out of 6 picks in the early- mid 00s and a similar drought mid/late 80s through early 90s