02-24-2021, 09:41 PM
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#261
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Powerplay Quarterback
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Calgary
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Originally Posted by Textcritic
It gets tiresome reading the same things over and over and over and over again, especially when this group of players HAVE NOT EARNED THE BENEFIT OF DOUBT AT ALL THAT THEY ARE CAPABLE OF CHANGING what has become a perpetual history of mental fragility.
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Talk about tiresome, this stuff is bull ####. It's awful easy to criticize a stranger's mental toughness over the internet, but you don't know a ####ing thing about how tough they are. It's a lazy, non-falsifiable talking point.
100%, I'll criticize players and staff who are better at their jobs than I will ever be. Anyone who's ever put on a Flaming C even once would skate circles around me. But I do my absolute best to keep my criticism to things I see or find evidence for. I don't make judgments about what's going on in their heads or if they're cancers in the room because that #### is garbage.
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Fire Geoff Ward.
Into the Sun.
Last edited by theinfinitejar; 02-24-2021 at 10:09 PM.
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02-24-2021, 09:42 PM
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#262
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Franchise Player
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It's Robbie time!
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02-24-2021, 09:43 PM
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#263
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Powerplay Quarterback
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Calgary
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And just because it needs being said and I've been very negative on the team for the past couple weeks, hats off to the penalty kill tonight, it was excellent.
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Fire Geoff Ward.
Into the Sun.
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02-24-2021, 09:59 PM
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#264
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Commie Referee
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Small town, B.C.
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Originally Posted by GranteedEV
Sometimes I do wonder if you even watch the team though to make such claims.
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Ah, the old 'there's no way my opinion is wrong so I question if you even watch the games' line. Classic.
We have different opinions on things. It's ok.
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02-24-2021, 10:01 PM
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#265
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Help, save, whatever.
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Imagine if you guys get the 4th spot and Leafs get 1st.
That means Leafs would play Flames first round right?
Would Flames go with Rittich? He clearly owns the Leafs. It's not even a small sample. I'm pretty sure in previous seasons he's always played great against them.
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02-24-2021, 10:01 PM
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#266
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Apr 2013
Location: Cowtown
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Quote:
Originally Posted by AC
By my count the Flames had 10 ENGs after Ward took over in 30 wins, including 4 in the series against Winnipeg. They had 3 last season while still with Peters in 11 wins.
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Ward had said that last year he kept using Peters system, but since the beginning of this year, where we began using Wards system that number is 0?
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Quote:
Originally Posted by oilboimcdavid
Eakins wasn't a bad coach, the team just had 2 bad years, they should've been more patient.
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02-24-2021, 10:03 PM
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#267
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Franchise Player
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I’m not sure it’s mental fragility that allowed the Leafs to nearly skate you out of the rink for 120+ minutes.
In fact it may have taken some mental toughness to win the first game despite not having the puck too much.
Maybe the assembled team, coach included, aren’t as good at hockey as the opposition on many nights.
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02-24-2021, 10:04 PM
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#268
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Commie Referee
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Small town, B.C.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by theinfinitejar
And just because it needs being said and I've been very negative on the team for the past couple weeks, hats off to the penalty kill tonight, it was excellent.
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Absolutely. They were awesome these past two games. The positives I really noticed tonight:
Rittich (obviously)
The PK
Kylington
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02-24-2021, 10:06 PM
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#269
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First Line Centre
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Quote:
Originally Posted by savemedrzaius
Imagine if you guys get the 4th spot and Leafs get 1st.
That means Leafs would play Flames first round right?
Would Flames go with Rittich? He clearly owns the Leafs. It's not even a small sample. I'm pretty sure in previous seasons he's always played great against them.
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Ward's hockey smarts is so non-existent that having that knowledge would explode his brain and result in him starting Domingue because he wouldn't know what else to do
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02-24-2021, 10:06 PM
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#270
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Commie Referee
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Small town, B.C.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by savemedrzaius
Imagine if you guys get the 4th spot and Leafs get 1st.
That means Leafs would play Flames first round right?
Would Flames go with Rittich? He clearly owns the Leafs. It's not even a small sample. I'm pretty sure in previous seasons he's always played great against them.
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No. Unless Markstrom was hurt he'd be starting. No way you sign a guy to that deal (and who has been the team MVP this season) and then sit him in the playoffs.
Just good to know Rittich could step in if he had to.
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02-24-2021, 10:07 PM
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#271
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Powerplay Quarterback
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Calgary
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Originally Posted by Textcritic
It has been four coaches now. One more is not going to make a difference, regardless of how high he ranks among the resident CalgaryPuck coaching experts. Or rather, if he makes a difference, it will be negligible.
The coach cannot do everything for them. The players need to figure this out.
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Hey man not all of us can do sports psychology through the TV, some of us need to be to be coaches through the TV instead.
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Fire Geoff Ward.
Into the Sun.
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02-24-2021, 10:08 PM
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#272
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Lifetime Suspension
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Originally Posted by theinfinitejar
Hey man not all of us can do sports psychology through the TV, some of us need to be to be coaches through the TV instead.
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You'll be surprised to learn it's easier to observe with your eyes than read minds.
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02-24-2021, 10:11 PM
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#273
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Franchise Player
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This female puppy I just acquired...
Quick question !
How do I coach her to squat to pee?
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02-24-2021, 10:12 PM
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#274
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Lifetime Suspension
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Originally Posted by timbit
This female puppy I just acquired...
Quick question !
How do I coach her to squat to pee?
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Puppy see puppy do.
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02-24-2021, 10:12 PM
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#275
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Franchise Player
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Quote:
Originally Posted by timbit
This female puppy I just acquired...
Quick question !
How do I coach her to squat to pee?
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how's the scotch?
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02-24-2021, 10:13 PM
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#276
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#1 Goaltender
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Calgary, AB
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Quote:
Originally Posted by GranteedEV
39 sog
geoff ward hockey
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Or is it Glen Gulutuzan hockey?
Sent from my SM-G965W using Tapatalk
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You lack rawness, you lack passion, you couldn't make it through war without rations.
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02-24-2021, 10:13 PM
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#277
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2014
Location: Springbank
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It’s funny - some use the fact there have been 4 coaches with similar results as proof positive the Flames don’t hire good coaches. That may be true, but the other explanation is that the Flames players just don’t perform that well no matter who their coach is.
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02-24-2021, 10:13 PM
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#278
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Franchise Player
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Enoch Root
how's the scotch?
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3rd dram. All is good!
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02-24-2021, 10:15 PM
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#279
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2014
Location: Springbank
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Quote:
Originally Posted by DeluxeMoustache
I have to admit, I’m starting to wonder about the psychology of
‘It’s not the coach, it’s the players’.
Because some people stick to it, coach after coach.
Is it resigning yourself to some inevitability, or creating the illusion that perhaps there is hope for change, simply because a decision on coaching typically happens on a once in a few years basis (barring extraordinary circumstances)
I’m suspecting it’s some kind of defense mechanism
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How is this any different than people who stick to “if only we had a different coach they’d be better” coach after coach?
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02-24-2021, 10:15 PM
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#280
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Help, save, whatever.
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I was surprised how good Rittich looked because I know he had been struggling.
I was also surprised by how decent Hutchinson was since he was so garbage last year.
I don't know how the Flames shutdown the Leafs powerplay but hopefully it was a one-off because if other teams start doing whatever it was that just worked for the Flames on the PK it will suck. I need more Matthews goals.
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