[GT] Flames at Hawks (a.k.a. Rockford Ice Hogs)

[Wastedyouth]

Originally Posted by dissentowner

This coach sucks and it goes to show even against a team that looks like a bad AHL squad if you are just going to throw everything at the net from far out with no traffic you are not going to succeed. Mrazek is a capable goalie and he is going to stop that crap all day. Minus a few plays everything has been from the outside and easy with perfect sightlines to the puck. No creativity at all.

They put a tonne of effort into getting the puck down low and then throw it to the point.

It's stupid.

[gvitaly]

Originally Posted by dieHARDflameZ

Let’s at least blame someone that’s playing the game.

DeSimone and Gilbert kind of look alike.

[dammage79]

Originally Posted by dieHARDflameZ

Let’s at least blame someone that’s playing the game.

#57. DeSimone. I get those two mixed up.

[Sec214]

Originally Posted by Fourteen FTW

If we lose this, I am flipping to team blow it up.

[JurassicTunga12]

We got our hands full with an AHL team.

[Manhattanboy]

Originally Posted by dissentowner

This coach sucks and it goes to show even against a team that looks like a bad AHL squad if you are just going to throw everything at the net from far out with no traffic you are not going to succeed. Mrazek is a capable goalie and he is going to stop that crap all day. Minus a few plays everything has been from the outside and easy with perfect sightlines to the puck. No creativity at all.

Ya even the Sharks are more creative than this group.

[ComixZone]

With the amount of Law and Order Toronto, The Bachelor, and gambling advertisments I've endured in the last 24 hours...

[St. Pats]

As it has all season I just don’t see talent. That they are losing to an AHL team isn’t surprising. Our best two players are AHL callups. Easily one of the least skilled Flames team I have ever seen.

[All In Good Time]

Professional hockey players or juvenile fun seeker?

[ComixZone]

I feel like Mangiapane-Backlund-Coleman line is going to get quadruple shifted in the 3rd.

[Fan in Exile]

Originally Posted by GioforPM

Sure but the complaint was that they (meaning Conroy et al) haven’t picked a lane. Starting at the beginning of the season it’s almost impossible to imagine a different looking rebuild, unless you accept crap offers for Lindholm, Tanev and Hanifin in the off season. There has to be some discipline to the approach.

They also picked a lane last season - the “try and maintain a successful team” lane. It failed for a number of reasons.

I'm fine with Conroy's approach. Assuming we sell our UFAs. I don't believe in deliberate scorched earth rebuilds. They usually backfire and focus on top 3, top 5 or whatever arbitrary measure people think is a must is misguided.

[thefoss1957]

Originally Posted by ComixZone

As a fan of a team that is this deeply committed to a tank, how are you feeling? How's the game-to-game watching experience? Invested in seeing the younger players develop? Seeing who surprises?

IDK about a "tank", for this year. I think the plan was to have some placeholders to wait out some cap issues, while developing Bedard, Reichel, Kurashev. There doesn't seem to be as clearly defined "must have" draft choice for next year, and the 'Hawks will have enough cap to make a FA splash in the off-season, to go with the youngsters, Hall and Jones. I do expect a deadline sell off of guys like Dickinson or Donato, and other forwards. I hated the Perry signing, and am relieved that that bum is gone.

It is 'Hawk D that is the most interesting, and needs the most work. Korchinski, Vlasic, Crevier, and Phillips are getting trial by fire, to develop. I see the bulk of them staying with Jones' unmovable contract. And it is my hope that the 'Hakws will offload Murphy.

Mrazek should get a deadline haul too, as he would be a UFA rental.

On the whole, expectations were low, so, there is little impatience among 'Hawk fans on most fan forums, that I've seen.

[FlamesAddiction]

They look like a team playing the second of afternoon back-to-backs, with travel in between. This is a rough part of the schedule. It doesn't matter if the team they are playing is Chicago.

[Sec214]

[dieHARDflameZ]

Originally Posted by dammage79

#57. DeSimone. I get those two mixed up.

All good, I was just bugging you.

[dissentowner]

Backlund with the right idea at the end there, need more of those plays. Get guys in front and get pucks from the side wall or from behind the net out front, use the point shot as a last resort if there is absolutely no other choice.

[ComixZone]

Originally Posted by Sec214

Massively important final 20 minutes coming up.

You have to think that if the Flames can avoid these two points and get an important "L", faith in the team down the stretch will shrivel internally.

[1qqaaz]

Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction

They look like a team playing the second of afternoon back-to-backs, with travel in between. This is a rough part of the schedule. It doesn't matter if the team they are playing is Chicago.

Yes, I was going to say that the Flames are being out worked, but really, it’s probably more of an exhaustion thing.

[Manhattanboy]

Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction

They look like a team playing the second of afternoon back-to-backs, with travel in between. This is a rough part of the schedule. It doesn't matter if the team they are playing is Chicago.

And this is where the lack of talent, including a real first line, really shows.

[Street Pharmacist]

Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction

They look like a team playing the second of afternoon back-to-backs, with travel in between. This is a rough part of the schedule. It doesn't matter if the team they are playing is Chicago.

I mean, it kinda does. There isn't an excuse to getting outplayed by the 31st team. They've lost 19-4 in their last 4 games. This is bad