Enough about the Flames, how bad is the Dome experience? Think it might have even gotten worse in the decade since I last attended a game. Won’t talk much about the library atmosphere since the Flames didn’t give much to cheer about, but the other entertainment left much to be desired. The tv timeout breaks were dull and as great as Chris Sutter is, it felt like they were leaning on him way too much to get the crowd going. The Xmas music was nice but that was a bare minimum and the intermission concerts felt like a good idea executed poorly as you couldn’t see them from most of the seats. Add in the 40 minute parking wait, crazy bathroom lines, and the claustrophobic intermission concourse, I don’t regret attending but don’t feel I got great value.
It is a very old and tired experience - everything about it, from the crowded concourse, to the food, to the music and entertainment, the bathrooms, the parking and external atmosphere, the entire experience just screams 19980s/90s.
I enjoy going to games, and I want to support the team, but it gets more difficult to do so each year.
Calgary is a vibrant and young city which deserves, and should have, the best arena experience in Canada. Unfortunately, it is (arguably, at least) the worst in the NHL. Arizona not withstanding.
Sitting there watching last night and realized I just didn't care. Forty years of mostly disappointments. The only way this team will change is if the fans stop buying tickets.
My thoughts on the game:
- flames were working very hard, not a effort issue in my perspective
- markham was fine
- wtf is lindholm doing on the first goal?? I hate that sutter called out the rookie I'm an giveaway yet not the completely dumb play by lindholm
- dube had another, generally solid game
Flames need 7 of 8 points in the final 4 games before the break before I sat stick a fork in them.
Markham was great! Markstrom was bleh
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My thoughts on the game:
- flames were working very hard, not a effort issue in my perspective
- markham was fine
- wtf is lindholm doing on the first goal?? I hate that sutter called out the rookie I'm an giveaway yet not the completely dumb play by lindholm
- dube had another, generally solid game
Flames need 7 of 8 points in the final 4 games before the break before I sat stick a fork in them.
This is my pet peeve with Sutter, he has always and will continue to play favourites. The whole idea of him players who earned their spots is a myth.
This season is starting to feel like a waste of time.
But the good news is, I start the game, the Flames fumble around the ice, fall behind a goal or two and I have the rest of the evening to watch something else.
I had high hopes for the season. But the chemistry just isn't there.
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The thing is though, we solved the coaching problem, and proved that it was, largely, a coaching issue.
Who could have predicted that we would be right back where we started, in just 2 years?
I’m not even sure you can say it was largely a coaching issue at this point. Coaches aren’t miracle workers. We have a roster of players who succeeded in other environments and are now failing with this coach.
I don’t know if it’s ever one thing that is the problem or that fixes a problem. Sutter obviously wasn’t the catalyst last year, players motivated by expiring contracts was.
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I’m not even sure you can say it was largely a coaching issue at this point. Coaches aren’t miracle workers. We have a roster of players who succeeded in other environments and are now failing with this coach.
I don’t know if it’s ever one thing that is the problem or that fixes a problem. Sutter obviously wasn’t the catalyst last year, players motivated by expiring contracts was.
Flames look like a team that is missing the chemistry element.
They have the effort, but have limited offensive ability
GM really needs to find another winger, has to be a top 6
Theres clearly more to it than just that, and its not necessarily a 'new personnel' thing.
They are terrible right now.
Fumbling pucks, passes into skates or behind the skater, rushing plays leading to turnover after turnover, passing too slow, standing around on the PP or PK, shaky goaltending.
All of this is fundamental, and once these things start eroding then the puck starts bouncing off people, you're not getting timely saves to bail you out of mistakes and then the snowball just starts rolling down the hill and the rest of the basics start going out the window as sticks get gripped and nerves get tighter.
In my eyes, this is fundamentally mental.
These are not a bunch of scrubs whose hockey skills evaporated over the summer, this collection of players should not be a clown-show.
So whatever the hell it is, they'd best screw their heads on tight and get to work, because this season is rapidly circling the drain.
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