[PGT] Flames Win Again: Calgary 7 - San Jose 3

[Scroopy Noopers]

Originally Posted by N-E-B

Shut up you dumb bitch

Easily my favourite PGT post of the year.

[Erick Estrada]

Kind of a weird game. The final score is fitting as the Flames played hard and the Sharks are the worst team I have seen this year. The weird part is that somehow the game was tied with 10 minutes as the score did not indicate the disparity between the two teams until the end of the game when the Sharks just stopped playing. Credit to Markstrom for making two key saves in the 3rd period that led to goals scored the other way. In an 82 game all that counts is the result in the standings. The defensive breakdowns at times are still dogging the team and it's something you just don't expect from a Darryl Sutter coached team. Hoping that in the coming months they can put together some 60 minutes efforts.

As for the Sharks that was pretty ghastly hockey. I will give them props for a very good looking PK but otherwise David Quinn is simply not a good NHL head coach and while the roster isn't that good, it's not the worst but the effort level is by far the worst I have seen from any NHL team this season. I feel bad for fans that are turning out to watch that.

[indes]

Originally Posted by CrazyCaper

Amazing day all around. Flames win 7-3 and we welcomed our newest son into the world this afternoon. Happy Birthday Owen, world's newest Flames fan.

Hey! We just had our newest son last night as well!

Baby Knox gives a nod to baby Owen

[Lanny_McDonald]

Flames deserved the win and the score was much tighter than the play of the whole game, but the Flames did try to make it interesting with kitty-bar-the-door first half of the third period. On to LA and face a team that is playing some good hockey and not what they experienced in San Jose. This will be a real test for the club and give us a good indication if they are ready to challenge for a playoff spot.

[Goriders]

Originally Posted by jg13

This is the first time all season the Flames have scored 5 or more goals in back to back games. The offence is here!

Also Andersson back to back games with a +4. Top pairing has been extremely good as of late.

Don’t get too excited yet. San Jose is brutal defensively.

If they do the same against LA then we start planning parades.

[Goriders]

Originally Posted by Mr.Coffee

From what I saw he actually made like 8-9 unreal saves lol. Maybe people’s expectations are wildly out of whack. The Flames in their own end look like pylons or maybe even worse, because pylons might be in the way not just allowing cross ice one timers ad nausem. How many 2-1’s were there tonight, like 6? The Flames defensive effort (and I’m including forwards in this) made the Sharks look like the globetrotters. Zadorov and Stone were a straight up nightmare tonight, Hanifin, not good. Huberdeau, turnover central. But it’s all Markstrom’s fault.

Meanwhile Reimer looked like he was the university kid called in on an emergency basis.

I agree the Zadorov Stone tandem isn’t the best. I’ve thought that in a few games.

[tvp2003]

With that performance, it’s time to move Looch up to the top line, amirite?!?

[Aarongavey]

Lucic had a good game. Will he have another good game? Time will tell. Nice pass on the Kadri goal and another goal. A rookie would have been buried after that brain dead penalty, but Lucic got a second chance and made the most of it.

[cannon7]

Mangiapane's best game of the year so far. Great game from Backlund, too.

[Erick Estrada]

I think many of us were on to something about Lucic being more useful when being managed properly. Hopefully Darryl will be keen enough to sit him more when is play dips as he's had more energy since his break.

[Toonage]

I don't know how the game was, I spent most of the night listening to Millen try and say Huberdeau. One that was pointed out, its all I could hear.

Hoobadew.

[Goriders]

Originally Posted by icarus

Same points and games played as the Oilers now, they're just two regulation wins ahead and are three goals ahead on goal differential. Pretty neck and neck.

Maybe another BOA in the playoffs again.

Payback time.

[Toonage]

No thanks

[Bingo]

Originally Posted by butterfly

Go Flames. Awesome.

Weegar is so much worse than last year. Ugh. If we got a legit top 2-3 D then we would be so good...

22nd league wide in xGF%
6th in xGA60

Weegar is not the problem.

[Goriders]

Originally Posted by jayswin

Hell, even the Flames last year had many games 2000 under capacity and we were a top NHL team in a hockey market!!!! I despise the flippant comments towards southern team's fans sometimes on this board, when as Canadians that love the game of hockey we should be celebrating hot weather cities that embrace hockey.

I love hockey and I know for a fact I'd go to way less hockey games if it was 20-25 degrees outside every day.

What fanbase wants to spend big $$ to watch a crappy team.

I remember the Flames pre 2004 run. The sales reps at the company I worked for couldn’t give tickets away.

[Erick Estrada]

Originally Posted by Bingo

22nd league wide in xGF%
6th in xGA60

Weegar is not the problem.

He's been more or less as advertised. Good advanced stats with the odd costly gaffe. Fans that expected a flashy, noticeable guy may be disappointed. I know he doesn't get on the powerplay a lot but I was expecting a little more out of him offensively although I expect some of that may be due to adjusting to a more defensive oriented system.

[Erick Estrada]

Originally Posted by jayswin

Hell, even the Flames last year had many games 2000 under capacity and we were a top NHL team in a hockey market!!!! I despise the flippant comments towards southern team's fans sometimes on this board, when as Canadians that love the game of hockey we should be celebrating hot weather cities that embrace hockey.

I love hockey and I know for a fact I'd go to way less hockey games if it was 20-25 degrees outside every day.

Some Canadian fans have this weird obsession with US based teams and their attendance. I feel the Coyotes for example receive so much more attention than they deserve because Canadian fans can't get over the fact that the NHL needs a team in that market for US TV market share. What would the attendance be in the Dome this year if the Flames looked as horrible as the Sharks? Like I said in another post I feel sorry for fans showing up to watch that as they are just so bad. It's not like the Flames were selling out last season with one of the best teams in the league and there's lots of empty seats at the Dome this season. California has so much options with their weather that most of their professional sports teams suffer when losing. It is what it is.

[Bingo]

Originally Posted by TrentCrimmIndependent

fully earned haha. post all the crow pics!

its simply hilarious that lucic had his best game in eeons tonight, right after my thrashing of his second line deployment. and you called it

eh.. I'm a reincarnated user too. but only once!

perhaps, one day far or soon, a less divisive iteration of the wall of shame will be reincarnated as well

negativity has surged in its absence

I wish we had a list on the left side of all previous names. Would add a lot of clarity

[Bingo]

Originally Posted by GioforPM

The biggest thing that shot quality/high danger stats don’t count is the ability of the shooter. High danger (or even longer range) from Stamkos, Laine, Ovie etc is a little different than from other guys.

Yeah adding shot location and context is certainly better than just shots (save percentage) because that shows you true chances to score ... the player may suck, or his execution may suck and the goalie has an easy time of it, but at very least it's a stress point.

So the high danger stuff is a pretty decent measure of what a team gives up, and it certainly points to a goalie's ability if all other things are held equal (average of quality of player against, average of players that fan or put the puck straight into the goaltender).

But we've certainly seen opposing goaltenders with easy nights against Calgary this year although they sported a .930 save percentage.

[Bingo]

Originally Posted by Erick Estrada

He's been more or less as advertised. Good advanced stats with the odd costly gaffe. Fans that expected a flashy, noticeable guy may be disappointed. I know he doesn't get on the powerplay a lot but I was expecting a little more out of him offensively although I expect some of that may be due to adjusting to a more defensive oriented system.

And honestly at his cap hit just be a solid top four defenseman which he easily is.

Good things happen when he's on the ice ... with Tanev or with Zadorov.

Add in that he can play both sides which makes him handy as hell with injuries and I'm honestly not sure the lack of offense bothers me that much.