03-12-2013, 06:14 AM
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Owner
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: Calgary
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03-12-2013, 07:12 AM
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#2
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: San Fernando Valley
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Just curious to why you think Iginla was a goat on Saturday? He didn't break through and score any goals on this trip but his compete level was decent. I agree about Giordano though.
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03-12-2013, 09:31 AM
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Calgary
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
Just curious to why you think Iginla was a goat on Saturday? He didn't break through and score any goals on this trip but his compete level was decent. I agree about Giordano though.
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I just felt Iginla wasn't playing the type of game he needs to play to be successful. The effort was there but I felt in a game where the team needed someone to step up and put some pucks in the net, he spent the night dishing off to the players around him.
Perhaps it is unfair and I am looking at his play with bias but I just wasn't impressed.
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03-12-2013, 11:21 AM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: San Fernando Valley
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Super-Rye
I just felt Iginla wasn't playing the type of game he needs to play to be successful. The effort was there but I felt in a game where the team needed someone to step up and put some pucks in the net, he spent the night dishing off to the players around him.
Perhaps it is unfair and I am looking at his play with bias but I just wasn't impressed.
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That's fair. It's not unreasonable to expect your captain and highest paid player to rise to the occasion.
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03-12-2013, 11:29 AM
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Powerplay Quarterback
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I'm hearing this "effort was there" excuse and find it comical. There was a very uneven effort as a team from period to period. Heck shift to shift. Player wise there were some guys who caught up on their sleep. Yes they picked it up in the third a bit but LA had long since quit pushing forward and just gone into stifle mode. I'm hearing a team that gives consistent effort but can't execute. Not the team I'm seeing on the ice.
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03-12-2013, 12:35 PM
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Crash and Bang Winger
Join Date: Jul 2012
Location: The Netherlands
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I'm at least happy about Backlund. If I have to take a positive out of this game it's that for me.
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03-12-2013, 06:24 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Sunshine Coast
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I thought MacDonald played well. He gave the team a chance and I now have more faith in him than Kiprusoff. In fact I have more faith in Taylor than Kipper right now.
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03-12-2013, 06:32 PM
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Powerplay Quarterback
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: winnipeg
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Originally Posted by Vulcan
I thought MacDonald played well. He gave the team a chance and I now have more faith in him than Kiprusoff. In fact I have more faith in Taylor than Kipper right now.
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you are sad.....
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03-12-2013, 07:23 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Sunshine Coast
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Kipper has had, what one good game this season. If you still have faith that's fine, right now I don't. I came to this opinion on my own but here's another's thoughts.
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It is why, on a Monday morning, the stats line on Kiprusoff is so uncharacteristically grim – just a 3.43 goals-against average, an .857 save percentage and only three wins in 10 decisions. Kiprusoff’s save percentage leaves him ranked 72nd of the 79 goalies which have played a game in the league this year and is far off his historical standards. Kiprusoff had a slow start to the season and then, this past weekend, two grim outings in the Flames’ whirlwind trip through southern California.
Kiprusoff was the starter on Friday against Anaheim and was outplayed by the Ducks’ first-year goaltender, Viktor Fasth, in a 4-0 Calgary loss. It didn’t get any better 24 hours later either, as the Flames fell 6-2 to the defending Stanley Cup champion Los Angeles Kings. Kiprusoff gave up six goals on 22 shots and then got the hook from coach Bob Hartley in favour of Joey MacDonald, when it no longer mattered.
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http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sport...rticle9582070/
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03-12-2013, 07:29 PM
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Franchise Player
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Originally Posted by Vulcan
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Kiprusoff has had slow starts before.
But this year, there was a very truncated preseason with no preseason games.
Not surprisingly, several goalies got off to slow starts.
The difference for Kiprusoff is that he has still only had 10 games due to injury.
How about we give him a chance to get going?
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03-12-2013, 07:40 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Sunshine Coast
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Enoch Root
Kiprusoff has had slow starts before.
But this year, there was a very truncated preseason with no preseason games.
Not surprisingly, several goalies got off to slow starts.
The difference for Kiprusoff is that he has still only had 10 games due to injury.
How about we give him a chance to get going?
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This I understand but this isn't just a slow start, it's an atrocious start.
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03-12-2013, 08:56 PM
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Scoring Winger
Join Date: Dec 2011
Location: B.C.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Enoch Root
Kiprusoff has had slow starts before.
But this year, there was a very truncated preseason with no preseason games.
Not surprisingly, several goalies got off to slow starts.
The difference for Kiprusoff is that he has still only had 10 games due to injury.
How about we give him a chance to get going?
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No... We can't give anyone time to get going. If we want to make it, we go with whoever's best. Right now it's MacDonald. That goes for all the other players too. This team has no cohesion. Pick some lines and stick to them. The team is so mixed up, they forgot how to play hockey. Let them get used to regular line mates.
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03-12-2013, 09:27 PM
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Originally Posted by Vulcan
This I understand but this isn't just a slow start, it's an atrocious start.
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The d zone coverage has been atrocious. Soft D, no C and everyone mesmerized by the puck and ignoring their men. Repeatedly. Any, and I mean any, goalie's stats would be terrible. Dryden, Hasek, Plante, Vezina, Roy. The team D has been that bad.
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03-12-2013, 09:50 PM
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#15
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Haparanda
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Viktor Fasth didn't outplay Kipper, Viktor Fasth outplayed the Flames Offensive.
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03-12-2013, 10:07 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Sunshine Coast
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Quote:
Originally Posted by DeluxeMoustache
The d zone coverage has been atrocious. Soft D, no C and everyone mesmerized by the puck and ignoring their men. Repeatedly. Any, and I mean any, goalie's stats would be terrible. Dryden, Hasek, Plante, Vezina, Roy. The team D has been that bad.
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If this is true how come Kiprusoff has the worst goalie stats of any goalie that has started for the Flames this season.
Last edited by Vulcan; 03-12-2013 at 10:09 PM.
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