The Canadiens in recent years have given the Flames a lot of trouble. For a long time the Flames represented like 13% of their win total for the season. So Hopefully the Flames can match the 8 spot that Winnipeg put up, and keep the sheet clean on their side. There's been a few of these games lately where these big underdogs go into the rink of a team with a good home record and come away with a win. I know that Daryl will make sure the team is well aware of this.
Go Flames.
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The Canadiens in recent years have given the Flames a lot of trouble. For a long time the Flames represented like 13% of their win total for the season. So Hopefully the Flames can match the 8 spot that Winnipeg put up, and keep the sheet clean on their side. There's been a few of these games lately where these big underdogs go into the rink of a team with a good home record and come away with a win. I know that Daryl will make sure the team is well aware of this.
Go Flames.
That percentage was only last year due to playing the same teams over and over. Flames had 23% of their wins against the Habs!
On normal years they play each other twice therefore even the two seasons pre-Canadian division (19-20 and 18-19) where Habs beat them both times, that accounted for 6,5% and 4,5% of their wins.
9 seasons before that it was either a split or Flames won both.
Flames have a knack for losing games they should win. Plus the Canadian record doesn't bode well. Fingers crossed tho
Flames have actually been pretty good against bad teams this year: beat AZ, Buffalo, Columbus (twice), Wings, Devils, Isles (twice), Rangers (twice), Seattle (twice), Chicago (twice). Split Ottawa, Philly, Canucks (so far).
The Canadian record is kind of disjointed schedule-wise. I don't draw much from it.
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Flames have actually been pretty good against bad teams this year: beat AZ, Buffalo, Columbus (twice), Wings, Devils, Isles (twice), Rangers (twice), Seattle (twice), Chicago (twice). Split Ottawa, Philly, Canucks (so far).
The Canadian record is kind of disjointed schedule-wise. I don't draw much from it.
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Who's in net tonight? This would be a perfect game for Vladar to start, I'm a bit worried that Sutter is overplaying Markstrom like he and so many other coaches did with Kipper
Who's in net tonight? This would be a perfect game for Vladar to start, I'm a bit worried that Sutter is overplaying Markstrom like he and so many other coaches did with Kipper
Markstrom confirmed.
My theory is that Sutter is playing Markstrom as much as possible at the moment so the Flames can build as big a divisional lead as possible (or maybe even until just a Playoff spot is secured) and then he'll start riding Vladar quite a bit, so that Markstrom can head into the Playoffs as fresh as possible.
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In response to a claim that the Flames have trouble in these kinds of games, which I took to mean they play down to the level of poorer competition, I said the Flames have a good record against teams that are bad. The exception this far is Edmonton. The teams I listed are IMO bad teams. I suppose you could also point to .500 against Winnipeg, Philly and Vancouver, but I suppose any team has stuff like that in their ledger.
In response to a claim that the Flames have trouble in these kinds of games, which I took to mean they play down to the level of poorer competition, I said the Flames have a good record against teams that are bad. The exception this far is Edmonton. The teams I listed are IMO bad teams. I suppose you could also point to .500 against Winnipeg, Philly and Vancouver, but I suppose any team has stuff like that in their ledger.
I think the Rangers are pretty good. 34-14-5 is impressive in the East.
Who's in net tonight? This would be a perfect game for Vladar to start, I'm a bit worried that Sutter is overplaying Markstrom like he and so many other coaches did with Kipper
I get more worried about this each game Marky starts.
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