[News Roundup] Pregame news

[nemanja2306]

Five things to know about Flames playoff race

In recent weeks, the Flames were in and out of playoff position — by virtue of being a game ahead of the rival Los Angeles Kings and Winnipeg Jets, who are also jockeying for playoff position.
Monday and Tuesday were good to the local boys. While the Flames held on for a win against the Dallas Stars on Monday night, the Kings fell to Chicago. Then on Tuesday, the New York Rangers did the Flames a favour by toppling the Winnipeg Jets.
The result? Calgary now owns a three-point lead over the Kings (who still have a game in hand) and a one-point lead over Winnipeg, and if they win out, they’re in.

Gaudreau's night faceplant wounds

“I woke up in the middle of the night and tripped over a bench,” said the Calgary Flames rookie winger with a sheepish grin, following Wednesday’s skate at Scottrade Center in St. Louis.
Uh, care to explain?

Flames' arena pitch to city

The Calgary Flames’ vision for its new arena project is a blockbuster that would take up several blocks’ worth of prime land west of downtown — bringing together a new hockey arena plus a football stadium and an amateur sports fieldhouse, the Herald has learned.
It’s a megaproject that could easily cost more than half a billion dollars, and features a component more likely to draw in civic funding support than if it were merely new stand-alone homes for the Flames and Stampeders.

Flames prospects gunning for NCAA crown

The occasion perhaps had a job-fair feel to it.
You know, check out the full-time employees, get a peek at your potential future. See how it might look, might sound, might feel, to play in the National Hockey League one day.
So, invited by the Calgary Flames, four prospects — Jon Gillies, Mark Jankowski, John Gilmour, Brandon Hickey — congregated in the TD Garden press box on March 5 and coolly followed the action. Without doubt, they could imagine themselves out on the ice, well-established veterans getting the job done in Flames sweaters.
But, late in the contest, in a matter of seconds?
David Schlemko reduced them to squealing fans.

Flames notes: Breaking the season into seven game segments

“I said (at the beginning of the year), ‘Make sure we’re good in our seven game segments and you’ll see we’re going to be in the picture,'” said Flames head coach Bob Hartley. “Not that I’m a great guy in math, but I knew by being good in our seven game segments, despite the fact we had an eight-game slide (in December), we’re right there.
“This is the best time of the year. We put ourselves in a situation where we can enjoy those games, where we can learn about the process of being a playoff team … it’s been lots of fun.”

Calgary Flames have their destiny in their own hands

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ST. LOUIS -- It's been a Cinderella season.
The Calgary Flames, though, won't be satisfied with anything less than a fairytale finish.
The Flames have already exceeded almost all outside expectations, but clinching the unofficial title as the NHL's most pleasant surprise won't mean anything if it doesn't come with a post-season invite.
"We want to write that nice story -- we want to get into the playoffs," said Flames right-winger David Jones. "All of us, looking back, we don't want to get a few years down the road here and think that we had such a great group here and we got so close and didn't get there."
The final chapter of the NHL's regular season will be written over the next week and change, and the good news for Jones and his pals is that their story is once again a choose-your-own-adventure.

Calgary Flames rookie Johnny Gaudreau made correct decision

ST. LOUIS -- Johnny Gaudreau is playing a crucial role for a playoff contender.
A lot of pressure for a rookie, right?
Sure, but it might not be any more stressful than Gaudreau's situation exactly one year ago, when everybody -- his family and friends, his teammates at Boston College and the entire Calgary Flames fan-base -- was itching to know whether Johnny Hockey planned to turn pro after the NCAA's Frozen Four.

[BurningSteel]

Now it's the Herald talking about how great the arena is going to be! Didn't King work there once upon a time?

[DJones]

Wow that's a lot in one day. Might have to go to A&W today and read the Sun for once.

[DionTheDman]

“I shared this with his dad on the dad’s trip,” Hartley said of Guy Gaudreau, Johnny’s father who was also his coach growing up in Salem, N.J. “His dad is a tough customer and he doesn’t put up with mediocre performances. Johnny was raised not to be a cookie monster. Yes, he’s putting up some huge numbers. But he’s playing the game the right way. The ice is not tilted when Johnny’s on the ice.

Say what?

[Knalus]

Originally Posted by DionTheDman

Say what?

On Sesame Street, Cookie monster is used to teach children about sharing, and impulse control, because he is so greedy for cookies, and doesn't work well with others.

[Huntingwhale]

Originally Posted by DionTheDman

Say what?

[Komskies]

Originally Posted by Knalus

On Sesame Street, Cookie monster is used to teach children about sharing, and impulse control, because he is so greedy for cookies, and doesn't work well with others.

That's Vampire Bill from True Blood!

[Coach]

Originally Posted by DionTheDman

Say what?

Cookies = Goals in Hartland.

[GioforPM]

Cookie monster = cherry picker/one way/Phil Kessel.

[GioforPM]

[Street Pharmacist]

Now it suddenly sounds cool

[saillias]

Fan 960 with some interesting stuff this morning. Comments from Blues players are sparking rumors that they're tuning out Hitchcock, and that his "shelf life" has run its course.

They had a Blues reporter on the air who shared a story (didn't catch his name)... In a game this year, a Blues player skated up to a Flame before a faceoff and said, "You guys are playing well this year, how do you like playing for Hartley." The player replied "We hate him."

[Street Pharmacist]

Huh? Hate Hartley? What does that have to do with Hitchcock?

[AC]

I don't buy it. Maybe it was Setoguchi... or Baertschi.

[Locke]

Originally Posted by saillias

Fan 960 with some interesting stuff this morning. Comments from Blues players are sparking rumors that they're tuning out Hitchcock, and that his "shelf life" has run its course.

They had a Blues reporter on the air who shared a story (didn't catch his name)... In a game this year, a Blues player skated up to a Flame before a faceoff and said, "You guys are playing well this year, how do you like playing for Hartley." The player replied "We hate him."

I dont understand what that has to do with Hitchcock? It sounds like the Flames hate playing for Hartley? Which doesnt seem likely...

[saillias]

Originally Posted by Street Pharmacist

Huh? Hate Hartley? What does that have to do with Hitchcock?

Yeah that needed more context. They were trying to make a point that a team probably dislikes their coach as a taskmaster, guy who demands a lot of out his players etc. But that the guys have to respect him.

[AcGold]

In context they just mixed up the names.