I actually meant that as a positive post. Flames were once again the better team (by far). They have just been so unlucky this season. If they start to regress to the mean, they should have a great second half.
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I actually meant that as a positive post. Flames were once again the better team (by far). They have just been so unlucky this season. If they start to regress to the mean, they should have a great second half.
Earlier transplant99 stated they’d hit 21 posts in the past 8 games. That is just bonkers.
Earlier transplant99 stated they’d hit 21 posts in the past 8 games. That is just bonkers.
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The missed-open-net stat is probably even uglier. They've been playing good, consistent hockey for a prolonged period. Just haven't seen the dividends yet. Have to think its coming.
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Normally I would say it all evens out in the end and because we concentrate pretty much only on Flames games that we dont see it happens everywhere.
But it's true at this point. Its an inconceivable amount of times the goaltender is beat only to clank it off the iron.
If I'm correct its 21 over the last 8 games. That's beyond absurd.
i think SN had an article about that... saying the flames are closer than their record shows... was posted on the site last week...reasons for optimism:
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The Flames are shooting at just 7.53 per cent in all situations and 5.74 per cent at five-on five, which puts them 28th in the league in both categories. Numbers like that are typically unsustainably low, which suggests some improvement as we move into the second half of the season.
while the Flames have been snake bitten wrt scoring, it seems like its bad luck and can't be sustained...at some point, those posts will start turning into goals...i hope
Fuuuck Tkachuk, I heard he loves texting during movies.
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Tkachuk pays for Tinder!
Go get em boiz.
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I hope Tkachuk accidentally puts on skates that are 1 size too small so he’s uncomfortable the whole game
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I mean really, it drives me mad that he just ####ing chews on his mouth guard all game long.
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I’m a simple man. I want three things:
Kings win Doughty goal Tkachuk hipchecked into oblivion
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This is gonna be messy.
I still can't get over Doughty telling Tkachuk he was born with a silver spoon in his mouth.
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Lets beat them on the scoreboard where it counts Make Tkatchuk do something stupid and take advantage of the penalty Seems simple enough. I want revenge in the win column not a moral victory tonight Go kings go
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Kings win the game and grind the whole Flames team into the ice. Message to Calgary - Tkachuk is a punk and all of you will pay for it.
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Go Kings, Go! And obligatory #### Tkachuk.
Smitty hard at work
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this has "mike smith 68-save shutout" written all over it already
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seriously though smith's glove is ****ing incredible
dude gets no respect for his goaltending because he's such a complete mental midget at every other second that a puck isn't flying at him
getting a pad/glove stack on that puck that was deflected off the defender's hand in the slot.. incredible
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I hate Mike Smith, But he has made a huge difference to the flames goalie spot and their breakout.
Ferland gets a little voodoo help from Faust
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9 unanswered goals says Faust over last 3 games, 2-1 incoming
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omg why are we acting like ####ing pylons! We're leaving quickie out there to die
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Within 1 or 2 minutes of the comment, Calgary scores. Faust needs to give up the hybrid statistician/play by play thing. Just be the play by play guy.
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Great job 4th line. Wonder if Stevens liked anything AA did on that shift?
Brouwer actually gets one!
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All Flames in the second. Ferland and, remarkably, Troy Brouwer score on Quick.
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Bad shift and goaltending. Oof.
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Most dangerous lead. Least they don't have to keep feeding the Flames power plays now.
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Who didn’t see this coming when it was 2-0? Show of hands.
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...another one Quick would like to have back tonight.
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Did the Kings go into cruise control to start the 2nd up 2-0 ? They look like crap since the start and haven't even tried to score.
Janko bunts the rebound in
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**** me!
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that was brutal. ugliest one of the year so far maybe.
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Kings just pissing two points down the drain.
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Way to blow a 2-0 lead a-holes!
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Didn’t LA blow a lead last time they played Calgary?
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Yep, and lost in OT. The Kings play like pansies when they play Calgary.
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No surprise they are throwing away two points again to a division team.
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This team has been an absolute dumpster fire this period. Thankful the score against isn’t higher than it really should be imo.
Mony Mony
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We just got punked in that second period! I hope JS is raising hell in that locker room.
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this is pathetic
you can't have a board battle at the blue line turn into a 2 on 1 against you, ever. especially not after you give up 3 unanswered..
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Kings have just quit. Maybe Brown, Pearson and Forbort are still playing.
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What a ****ing embarrassment. Do these guys not have any pride? Wake the **** up.
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Close your ****ing five hole and what ****ing awful shift. Awful all around.
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Flames get a breakaway because Doughty checked 2 seconds late and pushed right through an open bench door. no big deal.
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Jankowski's face consistently looks like someone took his icecream cone and **** in it. What a sad looking man.
Also what a terrible, terrible period. Laughably bad, I'm not even mad.
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How the **** did that period happen? Seriously, they shouldve had a ton of juice going into the 2nd after going up 2-0. Instead, they boarded the plane and flew home while giving up 4 straight.
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Faust going on and on about how the Kings has so many unanswered goals.
Then the Flames scored four.
####.
A taste of one’s own medicine
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Hook…. hold…
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Kempe first gets interfered with gets hauled down ....
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Refs are honestly cancer against the Kings. I would not shed a single tear if all the refs in the NHL disappeared by tomorrow.
So ****ing bad.
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They just ****ing held Doughty down and no call are you ****ing serious wtf.
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So brown gets trip, held, then Kopitar gets the same thing to him and nothing is called. They weren't even looking to call anything there
Why can’t we beat these guys?
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Gotta solve the Flames at some point, play 'em too many times a year to not.
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Might have to also play the Flames in the playoffs.
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Yep, the Flames are going to be a tough out in the playoffs.
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This is a vintage Kings 2012-14 game by the Flames tonight.
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Not expecting anything in the 3rd because the Flames in Calgary are just ****ing voodoo for us.
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it's pretty much impossible for LA to beat the Flames
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Seems like the Kings can’t handle a physical team.
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It blows my mind that the Kings don't lay people out in situations like this. Run Smith, flatten Gaudreau. Where is the willingness to start a spark?
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With respect to Mangiapane: A sixth round draft pick that plays a season or two on your farm team's top line and a couple of sold games in the NHL is already a big win for the organization. Anything else (and I think that there will be a lot indeed) is just icing on the cake.
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Let's all be brutally honest here, fix the 4th line and this is a way better team.
Seriously. I can’t watch anymore of stone handed Lazar and one hand on his fencing sword Stajan cruise around wildly being so inefficient. Stajan has a late chance in front that was set up by mangiapane, but he couldn’t do anything with it as he was on one leg, weight all on his heel, with one hand on the stick and it waving like a wand nowhere near the ice. And then to ice the puck with that much time left when your THOSE guys, is insane. Stajan is a vet and he iced it. We all knew LA would get one with those guys hemmed in late.
Thank god we won, but hrivik better be in soon.
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