I don't care if I take some heat for this... I enjoyed the pbp and colour. It was a great game and they made it FEEL like a great game.
Honestly, I was pleasantly surprised. They made an effort to make it sound like a national game. Credit where it's due.
The intermission panel though, my god, do they all have their hands in their pants when they talk about the Oilers? David Amber looks like he's about to blow in his tighty whities whenever the Oilers are being discussed.
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That Weegar call was atrocious. It’s either both or none as McDufus started the hug fest to try and get a breakaway. The ref was even on the side where you could clearly see his arm too.
Conroy needs to hold a press conference and show a dozen examples of this.
Honestly, I was pleasantly surprised. They made an effort to make it sound like a national game. Credit where it's due.
The intermission panel though, my god, do they all have their hands in their pants when they talk about the Oilers? David Amber looks like he's about to blow in his tighty whities whenever the Oilers are being discussed.
Jack Michaels and Louie Debrusk were fairly complimentary of some Flames players last night. Maybe Sportsnet talked to all of the broadcast teams and told them to be a little more neutral. If was nice to hear from that crew for a change, but you still can't watch in between periods.
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That Weegar call was atrocious. It’s either both or none as McDufus started the hug fest to try and get a breakaway. The ref was even on the side where you could clearly see his arm too.
It was a 50/50 call, in the end, that is always going to go the way of the forward. Unless that forward is Gaudreau at a key point in a playoff game. lol
Funny that a shootout showed it but Flames depth >>> Oilers depth. Sure it went to 8 rounds for both teams but it would have ended way earlier but for two posts. And Calgary was still working offensive type players like Sharky, Zary and Kadri while Edmonton was trotting out Kaspari Kapanen (5 goals last year), a point shooting Dman in Bouchard and Matt Savoie (no NHL goals).
Shootouts are kind of weird though. Flames best guy has two career goals.
But yeah not surprisingly, Oilers depth is their issue.
Downplaying a 3-0 comeback win against the Oilers and some epic goaltending by Wolf during 2 late gift powerplays is....something I didn't expect to see this morning. Some folks must be a lot of fun to party with.
I remember that! I can't find the clip of it though.
Had forgotten about Mossman until I had to use him on puckdocku a few days ago. I remember all the flak he got on here, but hey 20 goal scorers drafted in the 7th round don't grow on trees. Especially with our luck with prospects around that time. Anyway nice to see a nice win for the boys.
Jack Michaels and Louie Debrusk were fairly complimentary of some Flames players last night. Maybe Sportsnet talked to all of the broadcast teams and told them to be a little more neutral. If was nice to hear from that crew for a change, but you still can't watch in between periods.
Was going to say this too; it felt like they had instructions to follow.
They were talking about Gridin a lot and Wolf.
You could tell on the Zary goal they wanted to complain more, but were holding it back and trying not to be too obvious for their anger with the non high stick decision.
They'll fall back to their normal vomit ways within a few broadcasts; particularly Michaels. He was on the verge a few times.
Any success for the Flames this year will come on team defense and good goaltending.
They still don't have a player who confidently carries the puck through the neutral zone.
This is most apparent on the powerplay, especially when contrasting will the pace that the Oilers are able to make zone entries.
What a great memory... was in a hotel room yelling at the tv when that happened, only thing better than beating the oilers is beating the oilers by them shooting themselves in the foot
Colby Armstrong saying flames got lucky to get back into the game (gridin goal yes, but , Zary goal was not luck, Coleman goal was due to terrible oilers communication ), then they willed themselves to win. Colby loves his oilers as well and towing the sportsnet narrative.
No mention of all the awful penalties favouring the oilers.
Watch those highlights. Objectively, if it wasn't the Flames, would you not call those greasy/lucky goals?
A spinorama bank off a defenders skate, a broken play where a guy bats it out of mid-air, and a horrendous goalie gaffe. Those are the goals.
I only caught the highlights and watched the third, but I think I'd concur with Armstrong's assessment. Take the bounces and run, but to not call this lucky...we're wearing blinders.
