Edler - Tanev
Del Zotto - Stecher
Pouliot - Gudbranson
Markstrom
It sounds like Virtanen is a game time decision for the Canucks as he did not practice with the team yesterday, but he was on the ice for pre-game skate today. Big UFA acquisition Tim Schaller ($1.9 m x 2 years) is the extra forward. Del Zotto is out. Ben Hutton lines up on the second pairing in his place.
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"...harem warfare? like all your wives dressup and go paintballing?"
Ten is a psychologically satisfying number. 10 is the basis of the decimal system. 10 is how many commandments Moses came down the hill with. Top 10 lists everywhere.
Let us not lose our 10th straight season opener.
Sorry, I just watched George Carlin.
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Ten is a psychologically satisfying number. 10 is the basis of the decimal system. 10 is how many commandments Moses came down the hill with. Top 10 lists everywhere.
Let us not lose our 10th straight season opener.
Sorry, I just watched George Carlin.
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But I have a feeling within the first 2 minutes Boeser is going to get some space and rip a shot top corner. We all enter the suicide booth for a few minutes until the Flames completely take over the game.
Please let this be the team that carries our banner into the field of relevance.
As a boy in SW Ontario at a very young age, I watched Jarome Iginla charge onto the stage. I looked around me at Doug Gilmour, Felix Potvin and a Maple Leaf painted on my wall (yes, PAINTED) and wondered 'why do we like these winners of nothing?'.
My favourite hockey card was this goalie with a wicked 90s dragon mask. It was always near the top of the stack (and in hindsight, likely a very good reason my cards were never stolen at school...). The picture I liked the most of my favourite player, Doug Gilmour, was him in red, wearing #39. We also watched the World Juniors in 1996, and from that I had a new favourite player. Plus, I also got to stay up later when I convinced my parents I was a Flames fan. Things were looking pretty darn good.
What I'm getting at here is... I chose a team, and we've been through our ups and downs. We watched garbage on ice for years and had a miracle run to the SCF - only to have a controversial call potentially cost us the cup. But we were so close so surely that momentum carried into next year right? It certainly did not, as everyone decided to take a much needed break from playing hockey. We've been excited about rosters, we've had a HOFer spend his career here, we've seen one of the best goalies in the world put on a show, and we've spent money for nearly a decade on some of the worst fabric in the league... please let this be it.
TL;DR: Please don't suck again.
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I thank the almighty for letting me live to see the day when our fourth line does not have a goon or a bouma-type "skate really hard and occasionally throw a check" player.
Praise be.
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The Quest stands upon the edge of a knife. Stray but a little, and it will fail, to the ruin of all. Yet hope remains while the Company is true. Go Flames Go!
Flames dominate but lose. Smith looks rusty, Bennett takes OZone penalties, Brodie’s brain farts, Neal looks old slow and uninterested, coach makes questionable choices.....basically deja vu just to tease us.
They win the next game and never look back on their way to President’s trophy
Peters throws a stick into the crowd due to frustration. Hits a ginger step-child. Gets suspended and fined huge.
Next game is a huge victory and the Flames never look back...
I assume the Canucks opener will not be a sellout?
Not as of now
But they are happy with sales, from a botchford article
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There will still be games you’ll wonder where all the fans went. But the measurable signs are collectively pointing in the same direction and it’s a positive one.
The team’s season ticket renewal rate this offseason was more than 90 per cent, which placed the Canucks the NHL’s top ten. It’s an increase of more than six per cent year over year, which is fifth most in the league. And the 10 per cent of season tickets which weren’t renewed have been sold and then some.
must show all Flames games nationally when they play on Saturdays, Mondays, and Wednesdays !!!
