[GT] Flames @ Utah - Backlund game # 1000

[Ferarri]

Deflating goal

[timbit]

Originally Posted by GioforPM

It’s the opposite. He should be getting the puck almost every play on the powerplay. He needs more touches, not less.

He touches it…he gives it away!

[Toonage]

Happy 1000th Backs! Hope you like crap!

[St. Pats]

Yep they just skate around us like we aren't even there. Bad and boring.

[dieHARDflameZ]

Originally Posted by dissentowner

That is a bad goal by Wolf.

Ya that wasn’t great.

[KootenayFlamesFan]

Well, easy intermission talk.

Stop all the idiotic non-stop giveaways and start skating. Gotta score the next one.

[Macindoc]

Why the heck is someone changing with 2 seconds left in the period???

[Cali Panthers Fan]

Might be one of the worst periods I've ever seen a Calgary Flames team play. Just listless, sloppy, poor skill, weak physicality you name it.

Mr. Backlund. It's game 1000. Time to show some leadership with all that experience you have under your belt. Talk to your team.

[dino7c]

Bad goal, he slid out of the net...it was well covered

[Flamesfan05]

The tank may be easier than thought

[Toonage]

Originally Posted by St. Pats

Yep they just skate around us like we aren't even there. Bad and boring.

4 on 4 spelled disaster with how they’ve gained the zone and created space

[dino7c]

Originally Posted by Cali Panthers Fan

Might be one of the worst periods I've ever seen a Calgary Flames team play. Just listless, sloppy, poor skill, weak physicality you name it.

Mr. Backlund. It's game 1000. Time to show some leadership with all that experience you have under your belt. Talk to your team.

Come on now

[dissentowner]

Originally Posted by Paulie Walnuts

The personal isn’t great. But I’m just going to back when the staff was hired and Huska saying he will have a lot of say. Than look at Savard describing how he wants the team to play and it wasn’t anything what he was talking about.

Then again Toronto's PP is damn near bottom of the league with a stacked roster.

[Manhattanboy]

Thinking this game is over.

[troutman]

Kadri now minus 9 - by far the worst on team.

[skcli]

Was it Backlund’s birthday last night in Salt Lake City? I am wondering if they went out for a party just like in Vegas.

[timbit]

Originally Posted by Toonage

4 on 4 spelled disaster with how they’ve gained the zone and created space

5 on 5 and 5 v 4 were better?

[KootenayFlamesFan]

Originally Posted by troutman

Kadri now minus 9 - by far the worst on team.

He's been pretty brutal this year. This is a bad team and all, but man some of these vets have to lead the way and show how to play, including stop giving the puck away. Can't even chalk it up to rookie mistakes, it's the vets.

[Toonage]

Originally Posted by timbit

5 on 5 and 5 v 4 were better?

lol nope, but that’s what I’m saying. More ice to cover meant more space for Utah

[GioforPM]

Originally Posted by timbit

He touches it…he gives it away!

That’s (a) a huge exaggeration and (b) ignores how and when he gets the puck, which as noted a lot by people, is usually in a bad position, with no good options.