[PGT] Flames lose 3-2, playoff hopes extinguished

[Jetfire]

Originally Posted by butterfly

Toffoli and Lindholm are sitting there, staring you in the face, and score all the time. Could have even thrown Zadorov out there, he's so unpredictable. Saros is a top goalie in this league.

Nick Ritchie. Let that sink in.

Toffoli, Sutter's own guy who's been a stud all season for us, game winners, OT winners, etc. and he picks Ritchie to shoot over him? What a slap in the face of Toffoli.

[TrentCrimmIndependent]

Originally Posted by dino7c

Flames are pretty pissed at the ref

WTF is he doing back there is a valid question...he should be in the corner

I think that's a lame way to see the game.

They had a million chances and didn't cash in. like TEN bell chances.

Look in the mirror.

Small people blame others. Big people take accountability and ask themselves how they allowed that outcome to pass.

Do you think McDavid dwells on unfortunate ping pong goals against? No. He goes out the next shift and draws a penalty then scores.

[JohnnyB]

I don't mind the Ritchie selection. I dislike the Kadri selection.

[Scary Eloranta]

Done with hockey now until October. No interest in playoffs, except for breaking coiler car flags.

[Manhattanboy]

Fitting way to end the season:

- OT one goal loss
- inept power play
- out goalied
- out shoot other team, can’t bury chances
- weird, stubborn, inexcusable coaching decisions

[GranteedEV]

Honestly, I lost any engagement in the season back in December, when Sutter decided it wasn't worth giving Phillips a chance, but Walker Duehr was. And that's no slight on Duerr, he's been a solid 4th liner, but he brought absolutely nothing the Flames were missing. Nor did Nick Ritchie. Nor do Trevor Lewis or Milan Lucic. These kind of guys are how you end up with a team that mindlessly shoots on net and pads the opposing goalie's SH%. It's just not skilled hockey Anyone who thinks Walker Duehr deserved a better opportunity than Matthew Phillips is part of the problem that plagues this organization.

Never mind Ruzicka, Pellettier, and Coronato sitting in every meaningful game down the stretch.

Or being the only team to have a Dustin Wolf calibre prospect goalie and ride Markstrom like he's Hasek, when he's more Jonas Hiller 2016

Heck, pretty sure if you extrapolate Vladar's point% this team was on a playoff pace in his starts, but they stuck to this arbitrary decision that Markstrom is the starter.

[The Cobra]

Originally Posted by butterfly

Toffoli and Lindholm are sitting there, staring you in the face, and score all the time.

Lifetime they are 2 /14 combined in shootouts.

[Cycling76er]

Originally Posted by I_H8_Crawford

Can't wait for game 82 when we get to see...

Corronato? Nah, can't take time away from Lucic, as GM Sutter already has him pencilled in as top 6 next year.
Pelletier? Nope, need shootout superstar Nick Ritchie to get his time so he can play #1 line next year.
Wolf? LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL Nah, I'm sure THIS TIME will be the time Markstrom figures it out...f*** you Markstrom. You blew the playoffs vs the Oilers, and you blew this entire season.

It could be the man's last game in the NHL. With the season done, I'm ok with him playing.

[zamler]

Originally Posted by dino7c

Flames are pretty pissed at the ref

WTF is he doing back there is a valid question...he should be in the corner

lol, awesome

[Flames Fan, Ph.D.]

Sutter’s going to ride the same lineup until the end of the season just to show everyone who is in charge.

[driveway]

I'm going to take this moment to miserably pat myself on the back for my own predictons in order to take some personal solace from this terrible moment:

August 18, 2022 - Flames sign Nazem Kadri

Originally Posted by driveway

I hate this signing with the burning passion of a thousand firey suns.

This deal is going to be an albatross from the first moment Kadri steps out onto the ice. He's never going to produce at a rate that will pay this off, what a god-awful, idiot move. I hate this. I hate it.

November 10, 2022 - after losing 3-1 to Boston:

Originally Posted by driveway

We're going to miss the playoffs by 3 points.

[Flamesfan05]

Saros just outplayed Markstrom
Markstrom almost never make a save when he needs to in OT/SO

Would be nice Treliving take Kadri and Markstrom with him wherever he is going.

[Jason14h]

So Flames will win 8-0 vs SJ with a Kadri hat trick and Winnipeg will lose their last two game now to seal the worst season ever as a fan ?

[Bleeding Red]

Originally Posted by keenan87

When is the last time a Flames GM ended up GMing for another team?

When is the last time a Flames coach ended up as the head coach for another team?

It is pretty pathetic.

Umm...wasn't Sutter's last coaching job before he won the cup in LA with CGY?

Shouldn't we want it the other way around? A top coach from another teams ends up in CGY. A top GM from another team ends up in CGY.

If BT gets hired by another team, does that mean he is a good GM?

[GioforPM]

Originally Posted by Harpz0012

Please for the love of God, do not let Coronato play the last game, let him play his 1st game when it matters.

They are almost certainly obliged to play him as a condition of him signing.

[MillerTime GFG]

Originally Posted by jg13

I get it. You’re upset and shocked the Flames are a middling team yet again. Truly out of left field. You were optimistic until the very end, even when it defied logic. But you keep doing you lol.

I look forward to you telling us why we should be optimistic with all these large contracts heading into next season, followed by your wisdom of why things are gonna be different and we shan’t be a middling team again!

[DeluxeMoustache]

Originally Posted by dino7c

Flames are pretty pissed at the ref

WTF is he doing back there is a valid question...he should be in the corner

Goalie handed the other team a goal and couldn’t find that puck

It’s over

[Joborule]

Originally Posted by driveway

I'm going to take this moment to miserably pat myself on the back for my own predictons in order to take some personal solace from this terrible moment:

August 18, 2022 - Flames sign Nazem Kadri




November 10, 2022 - after losing 3-1 to Boston:

What happens next Nos?

[GreenLantern2814]

Originally Posted by JohnnyB

I don't mind the Ritchie selection. I dislike the Kadri selection.

I dislike both.

[SeanCharles]

Originally Posted by Harpz0012

Please for the love of God, do not let Coronato play the last game, let him play his 1st game when it matters.

It will do wonders for him this off-season to get a taste of what NHL competition is like.

Seeing first hand Karlsson, Hertl, Couture ect. will help him prepare for next season.