Huska is not a coach you rebuild with, they could be 3-20 and he still will play Weegar 25 minutes while benching Parekh. Management is going to have to force him to play the kids by trading most of the vets
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We're in a weird spot right now. Does Conroy try to move futures to try to save the season? I certainly hope not. Is everyone on the table after 3-4 more losses in the next 7 days? Hopefully. Is the plan to role with Huska no matter how bad things get because he signed an extension a few weeks ago?
Going to be an interesting next week or so @jets, rangers, @leafs, @sens
Huska is not a coach you rebuild with, they could be 3-20 and he still will play Weegar 25 minutes while benching Parekh. Management is going to have to force him to play the kids by trading most of the vets
Weegar vs Parekh is the wrong dichotomy here... when they should probably be a pairing.
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Weegar vs Parekh is the wrong dichotomy here... when they should probably be a pairing.
Not comparing the two. Just highlighting that Weegar shouldn’t be playing 27 minutes because the coach is too scared to let Parekh play in different situations.
I agree they should be a pairing, it reminds me when the Flames saddled Sam Bennett with 4th liners and wondered why he didn’t have sustained success.
You keep saying this like it actually happened...there was one breakaway in the third that was a missed pass that bounced off the end boards right to their guy. Wolf made an incredible save. There was a partial break away short handed.
Flames allowed way too much in the first but after that didn't allow a ton TBH. Not breakaways though, slot shots were too high. Do you know what a breakaway is?
The point being that Wolf was incredible, and we got dominated until the last few minutes of the second. It easily could have been 5-0 by the end of the 2nd, and they said the exact same thing on After Burner. Yet the scoring chances show more for the Flames.
I hate the expected goals stat. It really does not take into account how poor the defense is playing on the play.
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The point being that Wolf was incredible, and we got dominated until the last few minutes of the second. It easily could have been 5-0 by the end of the 2nd, and they said the exact same thing on After Burner. Yet the scoring chances show more for the Flames.
I hate the expected goals stat. It really does not take into account how poor the defense is playing on the play.
The bolded in Red is alarming to me.
The bolded in Black is frustrating to me.
These are the reasons I'm not going to watch. It is not because they're losing it is because they're not giving some players more ice time to show what they can do.
I'm excited to watch some of these guys but their ice time is limited and they're not being used in situations that will help them develop. They lose interest and don't develop as well as hoped if they aren't used in situations that use their natural talents and abilities. Then the fans lose interest. It has been said that the owners are scared of another Young Guns era... well, they're developing these players to be the same as the "Young Guns" from the Young Guns era.
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He clearly sees the flaw in the stat and is able to discount the way many people rely on it as an indicator of “expected goals”
he sees a flaw in any stat that doesn't support his narrative...Flames did give up too much in the first. They barely gave up anything beyond. They certainly didn't give up a ton of breakaways.
Flames were not dominated in the 2nd period come on now. "It could have been 5-0" Flames hit a post and barely missed an EN if we are talking couldas
Kerins is yet again leading the Wranglers offensively.
If the well remains dry for another couple games, maybe its worth giving him another look.
They've really put him through the ringer for how diligently he has worked and produced. Playing all the preseason games and having an off night at the end only to have that be your demise is kind of unfair.
Many players that remained with the team have done little with the opportunity.
They need a shake up. Injecting a guy who is feeling it may help.
Seems to be a pattern. Young guys get one off night and thet get launched. Vets get a whole season to play like garbage and they get an extension.
I'm betting we'll see a switch to letting the young guys run the show in a couple weeks or so. Huska is taking some heat around here, but he and the team started the season aiming for playoffs, as they should. I think we're getting close to the point where the management and coaches can say "well, we tried" and embrace the lost season via playing time and personnel changes.
I don't get the negativity from some posters. The Flames are gonna get a high draft pick at this rate, and that seems pretty great to me! Should be an interesting season since playoffs look extremely unlikely lol
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Lose to the Jets and Rangers and they’ll need to play at a 0.66 clip to get in.
Maybe Huska’s worst game as their coach. For someone who usually rolls lines was odd to see so much extra time for the veterans and his boneheaded OT lineup lost the game.
Was funny late in the 3rd when Hrudey named the goalies as his players of the game and the Wolf highlights were all breakaways while the Dobes ones were slappers from the outside. The Klapka goal was the first even strength goal from a Flames forward in 14 periods! Maybe the saddest stretch of Flames games I’ve ever seen. The Young Guns era was close to unwatchable but at least they had Fleury and then Iginla providing excitement.
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he sees a flaw in any stat that doesn't support his narrative...Flames did give up too much in the first. They barely gave up anything beyond. They certainly didn't give up a ton of breakaways.
Flames were not dominated in the 2nd period come on now. "It could have been 5-0" Flames hit a post and barely missed an EN if we are talking couldas
Wolf was really good, so was their guy
You and a couple others on here are the biggest Homer fans I have seen in any sport. There is no shot that you can watch last night's game and think it was a close game scoring chance wise. We bled scoring chances most of the game.
I have a friend who is a Habs fan who messaged me after saying Wolf is the closest goalie he has seen to Carey Price and asking how we were able to steal a point. Wolf played incredible, the other goalie played good (but it is the Flames, all goalies look good against us).
If someone watched last night's game and came to any other conclusion than Wolf stole us a point, I don't even know what to tell you. Because you need glasses or you are being extremely biased.
