[PGT] Loss #7: BOS over CGY, 3-1

[Flames_Gimp]

Originally Posted by Cali Panthers Fan

L. M. F. A. O.

Holy ####, so you've watched him all of 30 minutes then?

You have got to be ####ing kidding me with that comment. What do we have the memory of a gerbil around here? Jesus christ...it'll get better. Calm down.

Those opinions are the minority by far lol

You can see the gamebreaker type skill in him, it's like some people won't give him more than 10 games to get used to the big change!

[dino7c]

Boston is 8-0 at home

That wasn't a bad game

[Flames_Gimp]

Originally Posted by dino7c

That was in like game 2

He has been fine...he would be the Flames 4th line center though

oh ok.

[TrentCrimmIndependent]

Originally Posted by Goriders

Okay. We’re not in big trouble. Things are looking up!

Huberdeau needs a sidekick we don’t have. He’s not going to carry his line or our team if people are hoping for that.

He’s Oates minus Hull.

his sidekicks in florida when he posted best-ever left wing numbers were Bennett and duclair

you mean to say we don't have better than Bennett and duclair?

[Ferarri]

Props to the people showing optimism after this loss. Guess I’m just on the other end of the spectrum. Team isn’t very good and I think this is what we’ll get for the rest of the season. Coaching has been an issue as well and this is coming from a big Sutter fan. Subtracting Gaudreau and Tkachuk has been a huge blow. Weegar is meh and of course we know the struggles with Huberdeau. What I thought was going to be a great Flames season has been anything but. Yes, there is time to turn this around but I’m in the camp that this isn’t a very good team.

[Royle9]

Man we sure cried for power plays (myself included)
6 tonight and nothing to show for it, maybe 1 dangerous chance by Toffoli.

Lots of WHIFFS every game, same people too:

Mangiapane
Dube
Toffoli (he gets a bit of a break though)
Lindholm

If we didnt have Kadri this team would look and be so much worse its scary.

Call someone up, do something because playing the 4th line 15+ minutes a night isn't going to win the game.

[Paulie Walnuts]

Is Boston going 41-0 home?

Excuses Excuses continue. Bottom line we are not getting it done and this doesn't look like a blip but a trend. Play hard get a bunch of shots no one works hard to get inside to score ugly goals and rely on Brett Ritchie and Trevor Lewis to get us a goal.

With Markstrom awful goaltending and Sutters bizzare coaching this team is going to disappoint massively. Last year we escaped injury and had career years for a bunch of guys. This year is the opposite.

Just not a good cohesive team.

[ComixZone]

Originally Posted by TrentCrimmIndependent

his sidekicks in florida when he posted best-ever left wing numbers were Bennett and duclair

you mean to say we don't have better than Bennett and duclair?

You know what Bennett and Duclair can do? Play with speed. You know what no one on this roster seems to be able to do? Play with speed.

This team has no transition game.

[dino7c]

Didn't they score lik 2 seconds after the first pp

[dino7c]

Originally Posted by Paulie Walnuts

Is Boston going 41-0 home?

Excuses Excuses continue. Bottom line we are not getting it done and this doesn't look like a blip but a trend. Play hard get a bunch of shots no one works hard to get inside to score ugly goals and rely on Brett Ritchie and Trevor Lewis to get us a goal.

With Markstrom awful goaltending and Sutters bizzare coaching this team is going to disappoint massively. Last year we escaped injury and had career years for a bunch of guys. This year is the opposite.

Just not a good cohesive team.

So why are you here if the season is over? They will make the playoffs

[chedder]

Originally Posted by Winsor_Pilates

Just a lack of actual offensive talent here.
We have a couple 30 goal scorer types and a few 15 goal guys. We are missing those 2 Americans far more than we'd like to admit.
Despite BT's efforts to salvage this team, this roster makeup just isn't right.

Kadri is on a 47 goal pace (not that he'll score that many) Toffoli and Backlund on 34 goal pace. LIndholm on 27 pace. All this with Huberdeau not yet showing up. In saying that I agree we need more finish. Mangiapane is the biggest disappointment so far.

[Joborule]

This team is BADLY missing Gaudreau and Tkachuk right now. So much for this team being better than last's on paper.

Same with Mangiapane goals. Guess he has finally come back down to earth.

The lack of another playmaker in the top 6 is prevalent since the top line isn't god mode. Finally get centre depth for the first time in ages, but now can't score enough goals. Figures.

[Paulie Walnuts]

Originally Posted by dino7c

So why are you here if the season is over? They will make the playoffs

Because I am a fan, not someone who makes excuses for every loss like you do. This team should go 82-0 based on your takes.

[ComixZone]

Originally Posted by Joborule

This team is BADLY missing Gaudreau and Tkachuk right now. So much for this team being better than last's on paper.

Same with Mangiapane goals. Guess he has finally come back down to earth.

I actually think it’s time to make some pretty big changes.

Huberdeau - Kadri - Lindholm
Mangiapane - Backlund - Coleman

That’s our best shot at icing two good lines. Yeah, the 3rd and the 4th lines will be trash…but it’s better to have a bad 3 and a 4 than a bad 1, 3, and 4.

Lindholm at C without Johnny and Chucky just looks useless. This team just lacks high end skill.

[GranteedEV]

Originally Posted by LTH

You really want to bring him into this sh1t show? Like he's the one gonna turn this around...

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Individually? Of course not. But his skillset fit opposite Huberdeau is glaringly obvious and has been since well before the season began.

Huberdeau - Kadri - Phillips gives us a first line. Phillips doesn't need to play to his weaknesses. Huberdeau - Bennett - Duclair was one of the best lines in the league last year, and this makeup has a lot of similarities.

Mangiapane - Backlund - Coleman reunites a second line that won the division. All three will be better from it.

Dube/Ruzicka - Lindholm - Toffoli gives us a line that certainly seems slotted way too low, and yet that is exactly what a Phillips callup could create.

And I think getting two of Lewis, Lucic, Ritchie and Rooney out of the lineup, makes this team much better as these four in particular just cannot play at a high enough level to be out there in the situations they are out there. Whether it's carrying the puck, avoiding penalties, or generally playing with speed, these four are weak links.

[ReinhartonD]

Originally Posted by You Need a Thneed

That absurd penalty call with 4 min to go makes me angry. Flames pushing, Richie gets 2 min for being near a guy who lost an edge.

Can’t buy a goal right now, playing a lot better than the results we are getting.

Yes--two minutes for skating behind a guy who lost his balance. Flames had been pressuring and that took away the momentum and basically sealed it for the Bruins.

[SuperMatt18]

They are generating chances and driving play, the goals will come if they play they way they did on this road trip.

Down to a .962 PDO, below Columbus now and only above St Louis.

Generally the lowest in the league is around .975, it will come up eventually. Just have no luck right now and no goalies are giving them any softies

[TrentCrimmIndependent]

Originally Posted by Joborule

This team is BADLY missing Gaudreau and Tkachuk right now. So much for this team being better than last's on paper.

Same with Mangiapane goals. Guess he has finally come back down to earth.

The lack of another playmaker in the top 6 is prevalent since the top line isn't god mode. Finally get centre depth for the first time in ages, but now can't score enough goals. Figures.

I didn't like his 960 interview before the game either (mangiapane) sounded apathetic and just giving the usual lip service . now that he's won the lottery in life he's just bumming 5.8 mil off the Flames annually

last guy I expected to do that after watching his last 2 seasons . disappointed

[All In Good Time]

With many key prices missing
Against a really hot team
We were in it to the end
While Snakebitten

6 game winning streak coming up

[nieuwy-89]

Feels to me like the team has lost its identity. Not hard to play against. No forecheck. No threat on the PP or off the rush.

Goaltending and defence are mediocre.

I don’t understand the strategy right now. Just a boring, low event team.