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Old 03-25-2020, 08:23 AM   #21
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I think one of my memorable moments was in 2015(?) when the Flames clinched a playoff spot at home late in the season vs LA. I was in a casino in Vegas watching. I recall Treliving on the bench at the end of the game congratulating each of the players as they left the ice.

Would like to see that game again.
I was in Mexico watching on a phone. It was great.
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How do you watch older games? I see on nhl.tv its only this years games?
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Old 03-25-2020, 09:51 AM   #23
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I would love to see the first ever Flames game in Calgary from October 1980, when we tied Quebec 5-5. It has to be out there somewhere.
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I think one of my memorable moments was in 2015(?) when the Flames clinched a playoff spot at home late in the season vs LA. I was in a casino in Vegas watching. I recall Treliving on the bench at the end of the game congratulating each of the players as they left the ice.

Would like to see that game again.
Was that also the game Regher injured Hudler in a dirty play? Think it was a slash, might have been a hit.
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I found an old DVD of the TSN 2004 Flames season in review. It was originally recorded on VHS, the converted by me to DVD. Not super quality but it brings back great memories. Highlights of every goal in every series.
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Times like these I wish the NHL (along with the 3 other major NA sports) would open up some sort of archive. Would it be too much to ask to have something with memorable regular season games and full playoffs? I have to think this will happen one day (at least the playoffs portion). Would be awesome to relive the entire '89 playoffs game by game while also watching other series. That LA/EDM series from '89 was a really good one, and I think I've only ever seen clips from game 7.
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I watched a little bit from 2004, but it made me cry, so I stopped watching.
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I watched a little bit from 2004, but it made me cry, so I stopped watching.
We went to cactus club on Macleod for eats after game 7.

I couldn’t even speak I was so upset.

The big champagne bottle in my fridge remained unopened all summer. Wound up tossing it.
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Hooked up the VCR and inside was my recording from Game 6 of the 2004 Stanley Cup Finals. Couldn't watch the game itself but the CBC pre-game coverage was a blast from the past. A slim-looking Kelly Hrudey offering some pre-game analysis. A youthful Elliotte Friedman doing a pre-game interview on the bench with Marty Gelinas. And Heather Liscano belting out the national anthems.
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I believe I found what you desire:

Im just going to start rolling through nightly AC videos.

That game was amazing. Knocking out the defending cup champs to earn a trip to the playoffs for the first time in 6 years. When Hudler scored the empty netter the Dome went crazy.



Had to do a bit of searching but I found the "behind-the-scenes" video from the locker room following the game: https://www.facebook.com/NHLFlames/v...3203670598704/
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I went down my own YouTube rabbit hole last night. Watched all the clips I could of Habs-Bruins from 1985-1992. Gonna keep going today. It was pretty neat to see how the teams subtlety changed year-to-year. Neely made such a difference to that rivalry. There’s some fantastic moments for each team. Very fun! Next full game with my buddies is gonna be the 2002 Olympics Gold Medal Game.
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I went down my own YouTube rabbit hole last night. Watched all the clips I could of Habs-Bruins from 1985-1992. Gonna keep going today. It was pretty neat to see how the teams subtlety changed year-to-year. Neely made such a difference to that rivalry. There’s some fantastic moments for each team. Very fun! Next full game with my buddies is gonna be the 2002 Olympics Gold Medal Game.
I had a minor hockey game that day, both teams decided after two periods to just end it (we were tied) and everyone booked home to catch that game. I wish I had that one on DVD. I have the 2010 game, but that 02 game was bananas.

“Joooeeeee SAKiccc!” Bob Cole is the best. Also the Lemieux fake take was one of the best plays I’ve ever seen.

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The Caps just emailed me this: https://www.nhl.com/capitals/news/mo...es/c-316234418

I'm not sure how I feel about it, but I think it would be interesting if all the teams did it and they played out an imaginary rest of the season that way. It's pretty awesome that they'll have live PBP from the actual PBP teams for the broadcast.
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That game was amazing. Knocking out the defending cup champs to earn a trip to the playoffs for the first time in 6 years. When Hudler scored the empty netter the Dome went crazy.
Haha you could hear it in the goal horn guy, so excited he was just mashing the button a few times probably screaming at the top of his lungs, then remembers "Oh yeah, I'm supposed to be holding the button down"
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Oh I’m sorry. Does my opinion not match yours? If everyone had the same opinion, it wouldn’t be a “good chat” at all.
You weren't asked for your opinion. You might as well go into every chat topic you're not interested in and say: "Hey guys, I don't care about this", I'm sure that would elicit some good back forth, deep discussion and what not, don't you?
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I would love to see the first ever Flames game in Calgary from October 1980, when we tied Quebec 5-5. It has to be out there somewhere.
Here you go brother! Better than nothing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuzqaMPQ_AA
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Excellent introduction! You now have to show your kids the prequel, 1989 round 1 game 7 vs Vancouver tomorrow night. They'll love it just as much.
It’s funny I was a hockey obsessed kid back then and watched every minute of the playoff run. Yet I hardly can remember anything from the LA or Chicago series. But that game 7 I can still remember where I was on the couch and the chips I was eating when Stan Smyl came in all alone. I don’t remember viewing intensity like that other than the 87 Canada Cup.
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Recently found this gem: Game 7, 1995 Quarter Finals; Flames/Sharks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-o-r28yNLs&t=5286s

Now I know a lot of us do not like going down the rabbit hole of what a disaster this series was, but as much as it still stings that we lost to one of the worst teams in the league that year, this series just absolutely fascinates me. We outscored SJ 35-26 and still lost. To this day, that is one of the strangest stats I've ever seen. I have to think that has to be some sort of record.

Series Summary for context: https://www.hockey-reference.com/pla...er-finals.html

This is the series that also broke Trevor Kidd. After having a really good season in 94-95 (taking over for Vernie) he just absolutely broke down in this series. Even in game 7 is just seems like he's fight every shot thrown at him. I'll still never understand why Dave King didn't turn to Rick Tabaracci. Tabs was acquired late that season and played really well in limited action.

Also, after watching Game 7 the best player on the ice for the Flames was Paul Kruse. Seriously, not joking at all. This was shades of Ferland against Vancouver in 2015. Kruse seriously looks like Rick Tocchet in this game. He's hitting everything and absolutely driving play. I was shocked to see this. Easily the best hockey he played in his career. I had an exchange with Eric Duhatschek over at The Athletic when he posted his ABC Flames list and he said this about Kruse:

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Paul lived in the same neighborhood as me and long after he retired, I would run into him frequently at the local IGA (now Sobeys). One year, his best year, 1994-95, he scored 11 goals in the lockout-shortened season, which is also how many Wayne Gretzky scored that year. I'd tease him that he was in lockstep with the greatest scorer in history that season - and I remember he blushed a few times about that. But I also like to think it gave him some confidence too - he was a different player that year than any other season in his career. A really nice guy.
Looking back at Duha's quote, it's clear as day at the confidence boost in Kruse's game that season--seriously check out this game just for that.

Another big factor in this series was Gary Roberts being out with his neck injury. I am 100 percent convinced that GR would have been the difference in this series. He was playing his best hockey between 92 and 96 (in limited action) and was still an absolute physical force. Not only did the Flames dominate time of possession and dictate the play in this game, they were also so much more physical than SJ was. SJ would have had zero answers for Roberts.

Here are the lines I gathered from watching the game (I had forgotten how much Dave King shuffled things up, but these were fairly consistent from the third period into OT)

Fleury - Neiuwy - Sullivan
Titov - Reichel - Stern
Kennedy - Otto - Kruse
McCarthy - Kisio - Nylander

Line 1: Man, Fleury dominated this series. 14 points in 7 games. He was all over the ice in this game. What a beaut too--missing teeth and all. That speed tho! Roberts would have been so good on this line.

Line 2: Titov and Reichel had nice chemistry together. Stern almost won the damn thing in the first OT! Stern looked really good in this game too. King seemed to get the best out of guys like Kruse and Stern.

Line 3: Best line of the night, easily. King had them out there a ton. So many chances from these 3. Sounds like Otto was battling a wrist injury. Looking back, Otto is absolutely one of my favorite players from this era.

Line 4: McCarthy didn't get a shift the entire game! Which means he wasn't credited with a GP (always thought that was a weird rule) Kisio played sporadically, and Nylander started on line 2 but switched with Stern. From that point on he only really played on the one PP the Flames got, setting up a nice goal. Nylander also had a really bad turnover leading to the Sharks 4th goal.

ZZ - Chiasson
Musil - Patrick
Keczmer - Housley

Paring 1: ZZ and Chiasson were all over the ice. Absolute joy watching these guys. ZZ seemed to be the alpha of the entire D-corp, which I had forgotten. At one point in the 3rd, Chiasson slashed Jeff Friesen with a brutal cheap shot across his exposed wrist after his glove had fallen off--easily something that would get a player 10 games today. No penalty called!

Paring 2: Both solid. Nothing fancy.

Paring 3: This was interesting to me. Dave King seemed to have zero trust in Housley . I know that he was not know for his D and it shows as he's easily 4th in the pecking order behind ZZ, Chiasson and Patrick. I would have thought he would have been a much bigger factor in this game, which is weird as he had 9 points in the series--I am guessing they were mostly on the PP.

Ok, wow, this turned into a novel. Always fun going back and playing the what-if game with this series. If we had won we would have gotten Chicago in the next round (which would have been a tough matchup). SJ wins and then they proceed to get swept by Detroit being outscored 24-6! Safe to say that this series took its toll on them.

Ugh, maybe next up I'll go back down the '94 Vancouver series rabbit-hole. That one always seemed to sting a bit more than this one did.
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Recently found this gem: Game 7, 1995 Quarter Finals; Flames/Sharks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-o-r28yNLs&t=5286s

Now I know a lot of us do not like going down the rabbit hole of what a disaster this series was, but as much as it still stings that we lost to one of the worst teams in the league that year, this series just absolutely fascinates me. We outscored SJ 35-26 and still lost. To this day, that is one of the strangest stats I've ever seen. I have to think that has to be some sort of record.

Series Summary for context: https://www.hockey-reference.com/pla...er-finals.html

This is the series that also broke Trevor Kidd. After having a really good season in 94-95 (taking over for Vernie) he just absolutely broke down in this series. Even in game 7 is just seems like he's fight every shot thrown at him. I'll still never understand why Dave King didn't turn to Rick Tabaracci. Tabs was acquired late that season and played really well in limited action.

Also, after watching Game 7 the best player on the ice for the Flames was Paul Kruse. Seriously, not joking at all. This was shades of Ferland against Vancouver in 2015. Kruse seriously looks like Rick Tocchet in this game. He's hitting everything and absolutely driving play. I was shocked to see this. Easily the best hockey he played in his career. I had an exchange with Eric Duhatschek over at The Athletic when he posted his ABC Flames list and he said this about Kruse:



Looking back at Duha's quote, it's clear as day at the confidence boost in Kruse's game that season--seriously check out this game just for that.

Another big factor in this series was Gary Roberts being out with his neck injury. I am 100 percent convinced that GR would have been the difference in this series. He was playing his best hockey between 92 and 96 (in limited action) and was still an absolute physical force. Not only did the Flames dominate time of possession and dictate the play in this game, they were also so much more physical than SJ was. SJ would have had zero answers for Roberts.

Here are the lines I gathered from watching the game (I had forgotten how much Dave King shuffled things up, but these were fairly consistent from the third period into OT)

Fleury - Neiuwy - Sullivan
Titov - Reichel - Stern
Kennedy - Otto - Kruse
McCarthy - Kisio - Nylander

Line 1: Man, Fleury dominated this series. 14 points in 7 games. He was all over the ice in this game. What a beaut too--missing teeth and all. That speed tho! Roberts would have been so good on this line.

Line 2: Titov and Reichel had nice chemistry together. Stern almost won the damn thing in the first OT! Stern looked really good in this game too. King seemed to get the best out of guys like Kruse and Stern.

Line 3: Best line of the night, easily. King had them out there a ton. So many chances from these 3. Sounds like Otto was battling a wrist injury. Looking back, Otto is absolutely one of my favorite players from this era.

Line 4: McCarthy didn't get a shift the entire game! Which means he wasn't credited with a GP (always thought that was a weird rule) Kisio played sporadically, and Nylander started on line 2 but switched with Stern. From that point on he only really played on the one PP the Flames got, setting up a nice goal. Nylander also had a really bad turnover leading to the Sharks 4th goal.

ZZ - Chiasson
Musil - Patrick
Keczmer - Housley

Paring 1: ZZ and Chiasson were all over the ice. Absolute joy watching these guys. ZZ seemed to be the alpha of the entire D-corp, which I had forgotten. At one point in the 3rd, Chiasson slashed Jeff Friesen with a brutal cheap shot across his exposed wrist after his glove had fallen off--easily something that would get a player 10 games today. No penalty called!

Paring 2: Both solid. Nothing fancy.

Paring 3: This was interesting to me. Dave King seemed to have zero trust in Housley . I know that he was not know for his D and it shows as he's easily 4th in the pecking order behind ZZ, Chiasson and Patrick. I would have thought he would have been a much bigger factor in this game, which is weird as he had 9 points in the series--I am guessing they were mostly on the PP.

Ok, wow, this turned into a novel. Always fun going back and playing the what-if game with this series. If we had won we would have gotten Chicago in the next round (which would have been a tough matchup). SJ wins and then they proceed to get swept by Detroit being outscored 24-6! Safe to say that this series took its toll on them.

Ugh, maybe next up I'll go back down the '94 Vancouver series rabbit-hole. That one always seemed to sting a bit more than this one did.
Thanks for this epic take. That Game 7 was my first live Flames game. Nice template for what it would be like to follow the Flames. I have been fascinated by this series (and all of those first round upsets from that era) and have been too much of a wussy to ask about most of them. Anyway, thanks for a detailed write up and I am curious to learn more about those first-round disappointments.
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Thanks for this epic take. That Game 7 was my first live Flames game. Nice template for what it would be like to follow the Flames. I have been fascinated by this series (and all of those first round upsets from that era) and have been too much of a wussy to ask about most of them. Anyway, thanks for a detailed write up and I am curious to learn more about those first-round disappointments.
The Dave King era Flames are always so intriguing to me. I think a lot of it has to do it with this was the time when I first started following the Flames and hockey in general (I would have been 6 or 7). I am still convinced that if one of the 93, 94, or 95 squads makes it past the first round we'd be talking about one of those teams similar to the 2004 run we had (my money would have been on the 94 team).

Back to this series for a sec. I still cannot believe the Flames put 60 shots on goal in that Game 7 and lost. I re-watched the OT after I typed this up yesterday and it's seriously unbelievable how we didn't put one in. I think at one point that shots were 20-6 in the first OT--and most of those shots were high danger area chances. Stern and Kennedy both had like 3 chances each where they should have won it.

One last thing that was weird to me in this game was the overall vibe in the Dome. 1995 is definitely a strange time for fans and attendance (especially in "smaller markets") but there are numerous references from the announcers about this being the first home game the Flames sold out in the series, and also the crowd is sort of dead for most of the game. It feels like a Sunday afternoon game in February. I know even today we talk about the Dome being quiet, but this was just weird--being that it's a game 7 just makes it even weirder. I mean go back and watch any game or highlights from the 89 run and the Dome was a madhouse; so I am curious what the vibe was like in the city during the mid 90s right before the 'Young Guns' era.
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