Practice notes April 11 - Tkachuk absent

[FlamesAddiction]

Originally Posted by Bleeding Red

No doubt in my mind that HNIC is told to treat the BoA as an Edmonton home game with a pro-oiler slant.

There is a clear broadcast pecking order:
TOR - Canada's next great hope
MTL - Quebec's favored sons
EDM - all McDavid, all the time
VCR - Cause Jim Hughson has it n his contract
everyone else

Totally, there isn't even an attempt to hide it. Part way through the game with Edmonton being scoreless, they showed a few clips of the Oilers scoring in recent games.

[tkflames]

Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction

Totally, there isn't even an attempt to hide it. Part way through the game with Edmonton being scoreless, they showed a few clips of the Oilers scoring in recent games.

To be fair...what flames highlights should they have showed in the last few games?

[Reaper]

Originally Posted by Erick Estrada

Really it seems like all the Canadian fanbases act like this though. I'm sure Leafs fans would be going crazy asking for suspensions if that happened to Marnier.

How about if it happened to Drambuie or Walker?

[Joborule]

Originally Posted by GreenLantern2814

Maybe if we did more noteworthy things more often, we would get better press.

The media loved this team in 2004 and 2005-06, when it was accomplishing things.

They loved them in 2018, even as they backed into 1st in the conference, and since, have given the hockey world exactly 0 reason to believe in anything they do.

How much attention do they deserve? I barely pay attention to them these days.

Yeah, as rapper Pappose says, "everybody loves a winner!"

Flames don't deserve any attention since they don't justify any. And more importantly, it's a small market team that has nothing marketable going for it. So while we may bitch and moan about it, it doesn't make a damn difference to the bottom line for the execs. at Rodgers.

[GioforPM]

Originally Posted by dino7c

He didn't give Markstrom the big hug after the game... certainly hurtin

Someone in the GT though he was embellishing...one heck of a dive to carry it over multiple days. Commitment.

It was me, though I never said I thought so - was just wondering. It sure looked a lot more serious how he left the ice. I suppose they froze it pretty well for the third.

[dino7c]

Originally Posted by GioforPM

It was me, though I never said I thought so - was just wondering. It sure looked a lot more serious how he left the ice. I suppose they froze it pretty well for the third.

Just jokes...but he did go right to the room it was kinda silly to question it

Tanev looked like a season ender recently too these guys are pretty tough

[Textcritic]

Maybe he is being held out for a trade?

[RUNS AND HIDES]

[VladtheImpaler]

Originally Posted by Textcritic

Maybe he is being held out for a trade?

[RUNS AND HIDES]

Tkachuk for Hall +. We sign Hall for 8 years. Draft 1st overall in 2022 and 2023. Genius!

[Rick M.]

Originally Posted by DeluxeMoustache

Smith often calls his teammates out, or stares them down on the ice after a goal, which is a trait Kelly clearly doesn’t believe is something a good teammate does

In that regard, he reminds me of Trevor Kidd.