I can feel that CP is much more relaxed again :-) As of now it looks like the new system was really hard to learn for some guys, but now, when everybody understood, it looks like a great "pro" system. Really like our possession and team game. There are no floaters on the ice. Nice to see guys like Ferly, Hathaway, Tkachuk play like they play. Frols with Backlund, what a dynamic duo! Speaking of Backs, he is beyond awesome this season. So fun to watch him. He is like mistake free hockey player so far. Glad to have his signed stick at home :-) /met him in Znojmo, Czech republic, before WC in spring/. Now when Johnny is back and Monny is finding his old self, this team looks really, really promising! Defence playing really sound defensive game, Johnson beyond everything. It can be very, very interesting season!
I am glad guys turned the season around. I am really much into every game, really passionate, nervous etc....and that stretch of bad games.... that was not good for my health :-) I took a few games off, used some sleep and we are fantastic since then! Love mornings in radio after wins, my mood is excellent and maybe our listeners here in Czech republic can maybe recognize I have more optimism in my voice :-)
The best part is that if we will make PO /and I can feel we will/......we can do more damage than we did back in 2014....just thanks to this more suitable style of play for this part of the season.....
Guys......I hope this will be the season to remember!
Go Flames!
Greetings from Czech republic
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This is reminding me so much of the 04 season when we got Kipper from San Jose. Chad J has been THAT good. Props to everyone tonight, Johnny is just too good and Mony has really found his game in the last few. Even though he's on a 5 game streak I feel like he was still not all there until the last two games. Today was his best, noticeable force out there pretty much whever be was out there. I was hatin on him earlier, please keep proving me wrong Mony.
Really hope Versteeg is ok.
Smaller sample size for Chad but eerily simiar:
Kipper (2003-04):
38 24 10 4 1.69 .933 4
Chad:
16 11 4 0 2.04 .931 3
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It is really fun to wake up for each and every game now again. Was not the story from the beginning of the season. I was so tired, almost no sleep and Flames loss after loss....... I am not tired after these wins at all all of a sudden :-)
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Great to see nearly everyone playing well during this little stretch. Nice to see the team score two 2on0 goals in back to back games--I feel like traditionally the Flames have always found a way to screw those up. The defensive prowess of this team at the moment is something to behold but also easily overlooked. Seems like everyone knows what to do in their own zone, active sticks, smart simple plays. Guys like Ferland getting ice time in the dying seconds of a one goal game and being positionally excellent and making smart plays. The Chad is such an efficient goalie, so reassuring back there. Let's keep it going!
Couldn't catch a lot of last night's game, watched the highlights on DTMTS -- did Johnny really have a thousand chances to score? Sure looked like he was flying!! As well, though, it looked like the team was relatively cautious, backing him - or whomever of the forwards was down low - and making sure the Stars had no room to break out past them.
Maybe it's time to give GG and the coaching staff some credit.....for sure could NOT do that earlier, but whatever work they've done, the team seems to have learned a system that works for them and they're playing the heck out of it right now. I'll be a convert if they win in the Duck Pond this year. :-) Maybe sooner.
When I read this thread last night, well after the game was over, and I saw the quote I quickly went to find the waffles video. Then I stopped and figured that surely someone had beaten me to the punch. Sure enough, they had. That warms the cockles of my heart.
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