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View Poll Results: How do you think the Flames will do this year?
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Win the cup
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A playoff run past the second round
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Make playoffs and lose in the first or second rounds
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45.25% |
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Barely miss the playoffs
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24.28% |
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Finish bottom 10 in the NHL
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10-03-2023, 04:45 PM
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#121
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2014
Location: Springbank
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Markstrom and Vladar could play exactly the same (I doubt it) and the Flames make the POs by not coming within a game of the NHL record for OTLs.
17 OTLs - change it to 14 and the Flames are in.
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10-06-2023, 07:11 AM
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#124
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Acerbic Cyberbully
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: back in Chilliwack
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Originally Posted by Hackey
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Why are you posting a 14 month-old Tweet? What does that have to do with anything in this thread?
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10-06-2023, 07:33 AM
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#125
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2014
Location: Springbank
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Originally Posted by Textcritic
Why are you posting a 14 month-old Tweet? What does that have to do with anything in this thread?
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A tweet from some anonymous rando using an handle named after the person on Facts of Life.
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10-06-2023, 09:28 AM
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#126
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Originally Posted by Textcritic
Why are you posting a 14 month-old Tweet? What does that have to do with anything in this thread?
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It's a tweet from the same person that tweeted that the Flames could finish 2nd on the back of a rebound season from Huberdeau.
So basically it's Hackey being Hackey and making sure to immediately pour cold water on anything that resembles optimism about the Flames.
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10-07-2023, 08:54 AM
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#127
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Fearmongerer
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Wondering when # became hashtag and not a number sign.
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10-07-2023, 09:21 AM
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#128
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I don't have warm fuzzy feelings about this season and it's outcome for the Flames.
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10-07-2023, 09:22 AM
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#129
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I don't have warm fuzzy feelings about this season and it's outcome for the Flames.
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If they don’t do well it makes for easier decisions regarding pending ufas and they get another good pick
Win win
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10-07-2023, 09:27 AM
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#130
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: Calgary
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My concern with the Flames, reason I selected them to just miss.
They are lacking in terms of offensive side of the game,
This is the same issue they had last year.
Flames really need players to have rebound seasons,
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10-07-2023, 09:31 AM
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#131
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Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina
If they don’t do well it makes for easier decisions regarding pending ufas and they get another good pick
Win win
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True. I prefer winning to win-winning, but I'll take what I can get.
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10-07-2023, 09:32 AM
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#132
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Originally Posted by Finger Cookin
True. I prefer winning to win-winning, but I'll take what I can get.
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Me too but this year in particular a bad year may be the best thing long term
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10-07-2023, 09:54 AM
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#133
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Lifetime Suspension
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Not me! I'm playing both sides so I always come out on top! I'm cheering for them to suck so they get forced into the rebuild this team needs. So if they do terrible great! If they surprise, then great! My team is good again!
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10-07-2023, 10:21 AM
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#134
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Vancouver
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Originally Posted by Finger Cookin
I don't have warm fuzzy feelings about this season and it's outcome for the Flames.
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I worry about where the intensity is going to come from. Yeah Sutter was too much last season, but I wonder if the team will be a little more complacent and taking nights off. The only players I see really getting the team fired up are Kadri, Andersson and maybe Backlund. Hopefully that's enough. No idea if Huska has an intense side to him.
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10-07-2023, 10:24 AM
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#136
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Acerbic Cyberbully
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: back in Chilliwack
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Originally Posted by Igottago
I worry about where the intensity is going to come from. Yeah Sutter was too much last season, but I wonder if the team will be a little more complacent and taking nights off. The only players I see really getting the team fired up are Kadri, Andersson and maybe Backlund. Hopefully that's enough. No idea if Huska has an intense side to him.
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Zadorov? Weeger? Both of those guys play with a chip on their shoulders.
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10-07-2023, 10:53 AM
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#137
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Franchise Player
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Pack it in for Macklin?
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10-07-2023, 11:38 AM
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#138
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: Thunder Bay Ontario
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You onow the Flames aren't going to bead enough to get a top pick...the crappy thing is thay they won't be good enough to be contenders.
It's not win-win because they'll likely sign their pending UFA'S to bad deals and be stuck with the same team for a while.
But maybe this year will be different....
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10-07-2023, 11:43 AM
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#139
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: Calgary
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Think they're going to miss. It's been nagging me for a while but I'm beginning to suspect that overall team chemistry just isn't there.
That being said, happy to be wrong, I'm going to watch every game I can but expectations are set real low . Like I said, something just feels off about this squad.
Prediction: Coronato and Solovyov both are the bright gems this season.
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10-07-2023, 01:54 PM
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#140
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Fort Collins, CO
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I want to be so wrong, but I don’t see enough evidence that this team is anything other than a bottom tier team.
I can’t stomach the goaltending as it looks to be a repeat of last season.
The D is okay, but not dynamic without a healthy Oliver in the lineup.
I am not seeing the dangerous forward or power play lines jumping over the boards to put sustained offensive pressure on the top teams in the league.
I don’t see evidence of a system that this team is employing let alone anything for them to “buy into”.
Not enough change this offseason…
Again, I hope I’m wrong, but goaltending will be paramount for any success.
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