[PST] Preliminary Round/Division semi-final: Lightning vs. Panthers---Bolts win series 4-2

[dino7c]

Ritchie 39 career goals
Lomberg 3

[GioforPM]

Not OT, but a game 7 opener:

https://www.nbcsports.com/video/joak...-bruins-game-7

[3rd liner]

Originally Posted by AC

I remember that fight. He took on Kassian, got some quick shots in and Kassian fell/dragged down. Kassian got up and probably would have destroyed Lomberg but the refs jumped in. Lomberg was trolling him the whole time with a **** eating grin. Caveman was so enraged I think he took an unsportsmanlike or something and was escorted to the room. Then Lomberg sits in the box flipping his hair and giving oilers fans a nod. Hilarious.

[DeluxeMoustache]

I liked Sam’s game tonight. Good goal, created some other opportunities, and he had a few nice astute defensive plays. Good thing Sutter used him on the PK here before Tre shipped him to Q as well.

This series has been pretty exciting on the whole so far.

Looks like a 10:30 start Saturday morning, Saturday is shaping up to be a full day!

[GranteedEV]

https://twitter.com/user/status/1395566179620634635

[blender]

Originally Posted by djsFlames

Darryl sharpens his role players into diamonds as a ####ing hobby.

If we re-sign Ritchie he will be decent provided he is played exclusively in the bottom six.

Agreed.
I want to see a full season of 4th line Ritchie under Sutter

[GioforPM]

Interviewer: “So, Ryan, aside from tonight what was your biggest goal”.

Lomberg: “I only had 2 so I guess the first one”.

[Tsawwassen]

Originally Posted by Aarongavey

Is that an 1130 AM local starting time for Game 4? That is embarrassing for a professional sports league if accurate.

Originally Posted by dino7c

Imagine a baseball, basketball, or football game starting before noon!

Oh wait it happens all the time

Originally Posted by Aarongavey

I have never heard of any of those professional sports starting a game before noon local time. Do you know of any examples?

Originally Posted by dino7c

I know for a fact the Jays have done it because I went to the game...Baseball starts at noon all the time but 11:30 makes the league a joke?

Pandemic schedule too, I don't think its a big deal

First off, my mistake. I mixed up the time zone and put it in PT. Game 4 is at 10:30 AM Mountain.

The NFL does have games start at 11:30 AM Central. The other leagues do have that start time or even at 11 AM, but it's very rare.

[jayswin]

I think missing from the debate on role players and how important vs unimportant they are to the Flames is the fact that our problem isn't any individual player/move. It's just that we continually seem to make the wrong decisions with nearly every depth/role player move, whether it's who we let go, trade or sign.

No, you shouldn't have to worry about a role player looking good somewhere else. But the reason you shouldn't have to worry about it is because you should be creating situations where you have a nice revolving door of 3rd/4th line/depth defenseman that contribute.

We don't have that, we seem to get weaker and softer depth players every year, so seeing our old depth players do things elsewhere hurts a bit more simply because of that.

[GranteedEV]

Originally Posted by jayswin

I think missing from the debate on role players and how important vs unimportant they are to the Flames is the fact that our problem isn't any individual player/move. It's just that we continually seem to make the wrong decisions with nearly every depth/role player move, whether it's who we let go, trade or sign.

No, you shouldn't have to worry about a role player looking good somewhere else. But the reason you shouldn't have to worry about it is because you should be creating situations where you have a nice revolving door of 3rd/4th line/depth defenseman that contribute.

We don't have that, we seem to get weaker and softer depth players every year, so seeing our old depth players do things elsewhere hurts a bit more simply because of that.

There's also some negative bias and myopia at play.

Hathaway for instance had 6 goals and 12 assists in 56 games this year. Lucic had 10 goals and 13 assists in 56 games this year while allowing us to subtract James Neal and reeuce total cap hit compared to 2019.

Lomberg had... 4 points all year. Even a PTO like Brett Ritchie probably outproduced him and looked fine on the fourth line as that spare parts energy guy. Of course it's a cute story that he scored the OT winner but hockey's just weird like that.

I don't think Tobias Reider would have improved our team this year either, even though I prefer him over Nordstrom. Maybe it's my fanboy side showing but I'd rather give a kid like Matthew Phillips a chance to kill some penalties and be our Tobias Reider replacement. Phillips is also a righthanded shot, something sorely missing.

Paul Byron... waiving him was always an idiotic move considering Treliving could easily have waived Raymond, Bollig, or Colborne that year.

[GioforPM]

^^ All true (except I like Nordstrom better than Reider).

Byron going was a mistake, though I don't think he'd have made the same impact here just because of the depth charts on each team. And he certainly wouldn't have been kept on later at the same kind of contract he got from Montreal.

[KootenayFlamesFan]

Yandle is a healthy scratch today. Wow.

[activeStick]

Annnnnd another odd-man rush allowed by Florida, this time a breakaway

[Mazrim]

You really need Bobrovsky to make a big save once in a while here.

[activeStick]

Outstanding shift by Bennett there

[ComixZone]

Bennett with another assist. 1G, 3A in 7 periods.

[AC]

Originally Posted by KootenayFlamesFan

Yandle is a healthy scratch today. Wow.

He was last game as well, wasn't he?

[ComixZone]

Originally Posted by AC

He was last game as well, wasn't he?

Yep

[transplant99]

Originally Posted by AC

He was last game as well, wasn't he?

He is an atrocious defenseman.

Good offensive dman, but just a buffoon in his own end.

[KootenayFlamesFan]

Originally Posted by AC

He was last game as well, wasn't he?

Yes I just assumed he’d be back in, but I guess I was wrong. Two more years of a big contract, if he’s scratched now not sure what his future looks like.