[PGT] Flames throw up a stinker, lose to the Leafs 6-2.

[TheoFleury]

With this goaltending I find myself lowering my expectations for a cup run.

[DB93]

Really liked the third line tonight. Czarnik had three grade A chances. Janko was on the right side of most pucks and Bennett played well. The first line continues to cause concern for me. Hopefully they get back to better hockey down the stretch.

[Manhattanboy]

Originally Posted by TheoFleury

With this goaltending I find myself lowering my expectations for a cup run.

Lowering my expectations for a first round win.

[Karl]

Czarnik could've easily had a hat trick. He and Ryan were the best forwards.

And it's night & day with how much better Ryan is playing since mid-December compared to how boring or even flat he was before then. He's looking really dangerous offensively on many shifts now vs basically never even being or looking even remotely dangerous offensively before mid-Dec came about.

[Classic_Sniper]

Lot of mistakes today against a team you can’t make mistakes against. Team didn’t get a lot of bounces again, but the details and execution weren’t good enough to win tonight.

Top line needs to switch it up. They’re flat and playing uninspired hockey. Monahan looks slow, Gaudreau is fighting the puck and Lindholm is snake bitten. Hopefully a change can create some kind of spark for one of these guys.


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[TheoFleury]

Originally Posted by Manhattanboy

Lowering my expectations for a first round win.

Which is a shame because the rest of the team is damned good. Too bad they have this big ol' Achilles's heel just waiting to to get sliced open. How this management team could think that Smith/Rittich would be good enough is beyond me. I hold very little hope it gets solved this off season either. Probably just another half measure coming up where we trade an early/mid pick for someone else's discard.

[Stauner]

The goaltending on this team is pathetic. The goals that they give up on a nightly basis are borderline beer league.

Tre is doing a good job but his failure to address the goalie situation for years is starting to bite us

[Flash Walken]

Originally Posted by Otto-matic

Seems like the team lost its mojo when Neal went down. Even through that 7 game win streak they haven't looked as sharp or dominate as they did earlier on.

Team loses mojo, goes on 7.game winning streak.

[CaptainYooh]

For a die-hard Calgary Flames fan, seeing Toronto fans completely overtaking Saddledome was painfully embarrassing. Not a single Go Flames Go chant went audible enough with Go Leafs Go over it; not once! All those clowns wrapped in blue flags and high-fiving each other all over the concourse like it was their own city. We should all be ashamed of this.

As for the game, the SOG numbers did not show it, but in there it felt like Calgary was manhandled by a bigger and better team in all respects. They came out flying and we had nothing to offer back. Add a few really questionable officiating calls and you've got a recipe for disaster. Some games your team lose and you felt bad but proud for how it fought to the end. This was not one of those games...

[BBQorMILDEW]

Brodie is the new Matt Stajan.

[Johnhitbox]

Originally Posted by BBQorMILDEW

Brodie is the new Matt Stajan.

I though that was Neal


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[Johnhitbox]

Originally Posted by CaptainYooh

For a die-hard Calgary Flames fan, seeing Toronto fans completely overtaking Saddledome was painfully embarrassing. Not a single Go Flames Go chant went audible enough with Go Leafs Go over it; not once! All those clowns wrapped in blue flags and high-fiving each other all over the concourse like it was their own city. We should all be ashamed of this.

As for the game, the SOG numbers did not show it, but in there it felt like Calgary was manhandled by a bigger and better team in all respects. They came out flying and we had nothing to offer back. Add a few really questionable officiating calls and you've got a recipe for disaster. Some games your team lose and you felt bad but proud for how it fought to the end. This was not one of those games...

Well said


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[djsFlames]

Originally Posted by TheoFleury

With this goaltending I find myself lowering my expectations for a cup run.

Thing is, the goaltending has been fluid all season..

It's been everywhere along the spectrum of great to putrid.

We don't know what we're going to get mid April. The inconsistency lately is uncomfortable, and it will probably be the factor that gets them written off by every analyst and their dog regardless of where they finish, but at the end of the day, it takes one run. At least if it does go sideways, one guy is expiring and we'll be assured a change at the position, and probably for the better.

[dino7c]

Lets not forget the top line gets all the attention of the other team and their best shut down players...part of the reason the other lines are successful

[djsFlames]

Originally Posted by BBQorMILDEW

Brodie is the new Matt Stajan.

So that means he'll become a steady and reliable vet that scores a series winner to finish off his tenure here? Sign me up.

[dino7c]

Originally Posted by djsFlames

Yes. Against the team they have dominated most this season. I don't think it'll hurt their bid for the division whatsoever.

It will never happen, nor should it

JG is their leading scorer over the last few games and the season, they are not sitting him its beyond ridiculous

[topfiverecords]

We better play better against the Bruins.

[GranteedEV]

Originally Posted by CaptainYooh

For a die-hard Calgary Flames fan, seeing Toronto fans completely overtaking Saddledome was painfully embarrassing. Not a single Go Flames Go chant went audible enough with Go Leafs Go over it; not once! All those clowns wrapped in blue flags and high-fiving each other all over the concourse like it was their own city. We should all be ashamed of this.

As for the game, the SOG numbers did not show it, but in there it felt like Calgary was manhandled by a bigger and better team in all respects. They came out flying and we had nothing to offer back. Add a few really questionable officiating calls and you've got a recipe for disaster. Some games your team lose and you felt bad but proud for how it fought to the end. This was not one of those games...

Only three players "manhandled" the Flames in any way.

Tyler Ennis is 5'9" and 160lbs
Mitch Marner 5'11 and 175lbs
Frederik Andersen is a goalie

I am really, really confident that size was not the difference in this game.

[Karl]

Originally Posted by dino7c

Lets not forget the top line gets all the attention of the other team and their best shut down players...part of the reason the other lines are successful

Well it's good that Ryan is and has been doing the things he should've been able to do a little earlier in the season.

He's been great ever since mid-December, which is a massive turnaround to how meek, flat, and non-threatening offensively he often looked before then.

[minnow]

Originally Posted by midniteowl

You think the Ducks will trade Andersen to us, their division rival?

Kipper came from San Jose.