First time I've watched more than 5 minutes of a game this year. I was just thinking to myself "man, Backlund is just awful" and then he scores. ******.
Where have you been Vlad, you have been missed
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I've been to 5 games this year - I worked 2 and watched 3 as a fan. The two I worked? Losses to Washington & Pittsburgh. The fan games? OT comeback wins against NJ, Boston and now last night against the Ducks. Good thing I turned down working last night...
Here's a vid from my seat:
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First time I've watched more than 5 minutes of a game this year. I was just thinking to myself "man, Backlund is just awful" and then he scores. ******.
I know you have become somewhat of a jaded fan but this has easily been the best Flames season since 2004.
That's an awesome feed, I'd love to watch that instead of sportsnet. Still get a shiver watching that goal. This team is awesome and it was great to see Getz so upset, I just wish we could see Kessler cry.
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I notice no one really commented on the vicious crosscheck on Hudler that sent him to the ice immediately preceding the face-wash penalty. Is there a gif of that? I was watching the battle in front of the net during that sequence and I felt so dang bad for the guy! Musta hurt like hell.
One of the best seasons I can ever remember as a fan, and you have not watched 5 mins all year?
I feel sorry for you.
It's been more exciting this way, and I have more important things to do. This season reminds of 2004 when I booked my honeymoon in April/May in Barcelona, and I kept seeing those scores from Vancouver/Detroit on ESPN on the bottom of the screen and saying "no way!". This year I have been following on the phone and saying (repeatedly) "no way!" More fun that way (for me). No reason to mess with the system now. Just happened to watch yesterday because of the election...
The C of Red was once again a force to be reckoned with, I am so proud to call myself a Flames fan after that display. Great job guys, you deserve a lot of credit.
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I've been to 5 games this year - I worked 2 and watched 3 as a fan. The two I worked? Losses to Washington & Pittsburgh. The fan games? OT comeback wins against NJ, Boston and now last night against the Ducks. Good thing I turned down working last night...
Sorry, no. I tried to get the camera going as they pulled Ramo in OT but only got the celebration (again, mostly peoples legs). Maybe I should've filmed more - it seemed to work out!
If not for the Colborne beauty, or the Gaudreau tying goal, or the Backlund winner... the play of the game might have been Jones crushing Kesler who was trying to keep the puck alive yet not touch it on the delayed high-sticking play.
Jones comes cruising in and decked Kesler, so satisfying.
I'm going to need an animated image of this incident.
With Karri Ramo racing to the bench on a delayed penalty call in overtime’s infancy, Mikael Backlund swapped a glance with Joe Colborne that might as well have read, ‘Have a seat. I’ve got this’.
Turns out he did.
Jumping over the boards just a few minutes into the extra session -- Calgary’s first of the playoffs, first since April 16, 2009, and their first on home ice since April 22, 2007 -- Backlund promptly ended the game 4:24 into overtime, sailing a shot by Frederik Andersen to lift the Flames to a 4-3 win in Game 3 and usher his club back into the series.
The perfect time, he’d admit, to score his first ever NHL playoff goal.
“That was something I’ve been dreaming of, something I’ve told myself before the third period I was going to do, too,” Backlund said. “I’ve got to go in with that mindset if I want to play well. That’s what I was just trying to tell myself. It was an amazing feeling. It’s hard to describe.”
It might not have happened if not for a quick exchange between Backlund and Colborne.
With the referee’s arm raised in the air and Ramo dashing to the bench, Colborne was ready to jump on to provide Calgary with a sixth attacker. A look over at Backlund, and recalling the protocol for such a situation, he yielded.
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Last night was a harsh reminder of why I'm not in the NHL. Besides being unskilled, undedicated to training, too short and wide, and walking on a bum knee, there is another major reason I would never be able to cut it.
After that goal was disallowed I was completely deflated and pretty much defeated. I did something I hadn't done since the first dozen or so games of the season: I wrote off the Calgary Flames. Emotionally, I was destroyed and completely disillusioned with the league.
But while I was whining and cursing in the GT, this group of players reset and refocused on the task and never allowed themselves to give up. Not only did they tie the game, but they won it in overtime. They went the extra mile using the qualities I simply did not possess last night: heart, determination, and maturity.
I will try to use that display as inspiration and not degrade to the mess I was after the non-goal. Not the league's proudest moment I'm sure, but definitely not mine either.
Go Flames Go!
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The win against the ducks was definitely the one of this season's greatest moments, but there's one thing I haven't seen people mention much, which I see as a fairly important observation:
Andersen can be beaten.
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