[PGT] WCQF Game 1: Flames 2 - Ducks 3

[EVERLAST]

Is it a harmful time to switch up line combos if you aren't sitting players?

For the amount of money we pay Brouwer will he get better or will he sit.?

I think Versteeg played an insane game last night and should be put up with Ferlund and Monahan and Gaudreau needs to do something but I don't know what.

He looked scared last night as the ducks are already in his head and I know damn well they are.

Backlund and Chiasson need to be way more comitted as well.

I'd insert Lazar, F Hamilton and call up Hathaway at this point just to see what we have.

I guess Glen better decide but more than half our roster was missing last night mentally and had glimpses of partially waking up but......wow.

For all those screaming it was _____ fault we didn't execute as a team so we regroup for this remaining 6 games left.

I really think the winner of this series will be in the final 4 if not 2.

Let get back in this.

Go flames

[TheMagicMan]

We can do this...

The Ducks didn't beat the Flames...the Flames beat themselves due to three major gaffs:

-bad penalties
-that pee wee like line change
-couldn't score on the 5 on 3

I feel this team is able to regroup and learn as they did from game 1 to game 82. This series will mirror their season, much like an infant learning baby steps of the system to a kid slowly improving to a teenager applying the learned skills, and finally to an adult getting it.

With all due respect to negative posters, this edition of the Flames gives us all hope and we know they can play with the Ducks. Players and coaching staff have to learn from this and need to adapt, adjust and apply, and they will.

The result in game 1 is not exactly dire straits. It we got hammered 7 - 2 or 5 - 1..OK, we are in trouble. However, they were close and can keep up with them.

They are down now, but they are a group that can and will adapt. Down 1 - 0 less than a minute into the game, they showed resolve. To me, that was the biggest test of this game. They did not "crumple". They stayed with it. Past versions would allow the next goal or two. This version is stronger than we think.

We know they can do this, even the negative posters do too. They were down and out in November and we had written them off. This version of the Flames made the playoffs and made us believers.

I Believe. I know all of you do too.

[iamca]

Originally Posted by EVERLAST

Is it a harmful time to switch up line combos if you aren't sitting players?

For the amount of money we pay Brouwer will he get better or will he sit.?

I think Versteeg played an insane game last night and should be put up with Ferlund and Monahan and Gaudreau needs to do something but I don't know what.

He looked scared last night as the ducks are already in his head and I know damn well they are.

Backlund and Chiasson need to be way more comitted as well.

I'd insert Lazar, F Hamilton and call up Hathaway at this point just to see what we have.

I guess Glen better decide but more than half our roster was missing last night mentally and had glimpses of partially waking up but......wow.

For all those screaming it was _____ fault we didn't execute as a team so we regroup for this remaining 6 games left.

I really think the winner of this series will be in the final 4 if not 2.

Let get back in this.

Go flames

Agreed. I think GG and the coaching staff need to make adjustments as that's a big part of their jobs.

Surprised you didn't mention Hamilton and calling out how much he impacted the Flames chances last night... Wow that was a brutal start and game by Dougie.

You can't sit him, but he needs to be ready to play well and a lot more responsibly on Saturday or we are in trouble.

[CliffFletcher]

Originally Posted by heep223

The Ducks certainly did not run circles around the flames last night.

No, they didn't. But Elliot stood on his head. If he's merely good, instead of great, it's a 5-2 game.

Flames can't assume Elliot is going to be absolutely lights-out every game. They need to play better.

[heep223]

Originally Posted by CliffFletcher

No, they didn't. But Elliot stood on his head. If he's merely good, instead of great, it's a 5-2 game.



Flames can't assume Elliot is going to be absolutely lights-out every game. They need to play better.

Agreed. But also, the team was short handed half the game. Which is an issue in of itself that necessitated Elliot to stand on his head, and won't repeat next game. All I'm saying is that aside from the undisciplined play, the Ducks did not skate circles around the Flames and I do not see a team that is outmatched based on last night's play.

Though from the GT and PGT you'd think that the series is already over. I actually feel pretty optimistic after last night.

[Yoho]

Originally Posted by pylon

Lol.

The Ducks are so far a superior team in every single dept, that statement almost sounds like trolling sarcasm.

No they actually aren't. Flames went long streatches with puck possession created turn overs, and were buzzing all game, mental lapses did them in more than anything.

The Ducks successfully used there physicality to take the advantage over this game, and get the Flames off there's.

Anaheim looks a year or two away from the slow plodding LA Kings and if anything, last night showcased we have no reason to be afraid of them.

It won't be pretty when the pretty's gone in Anaheim down the road.

[Lanny'sDaMan]

Just wow... The reactions here are so over the top. Hey I get it too, tis why I waited thil this morning to post. I was some kinda furious after the game last night.

The Flames absolutely MUST play smarter. The refs didn't make an obvious call? SO what??? It's been happening ALL SEASON!! (I'm looking at you Douglas), and that 5 man line change. WHAT THE F..... That's some peewee amateur hour garbage, and the boys are better than that (usually). That being said, I also saw a Flames team that took control for stretches and had a solid play and a good lead.

I have faith this team will come out just fine next game and probably take the split too.

[Wolfman]

Game 1 was lost by one goal. Undisciplined penalties were taken all night. It's what I expected from a young team that doesn't have much playoff experience. They will take what they learned in this first game and I expect a much better game 2. The Ducks are a beatable team, that much I know. Everyone just calm down and back this team up for once when it counts. There's lots of game left in this series to turn it around.

[Patek23]

I truly don't believe in this curse. Or that it's even in the players heads. Some of these guys haven't even played in the building more then 3 times. As much as we love the team it is constantly evolving. At this point it's a statistical anomaly. They are paid professionals if any of them are sitting there thinking "we just can't win here" or that there is some sort of curse then I want my money back.

I thought we had a good game with a few mental breakdowns that really cost us. All things that can be tweaked on the fly. I wouldn't say we win for sure Saturday but I do think we will. This series is far from over.


Go Flames Go

[Wolfman]

To those counting the boys out after game 1, exit stage left.

[calgaryred]

Just finished reading all the posts, just wow. Did Calgary deserve to lose last night? Hell ya they played undiscipline after preaching it in interviews they were going to. Knowing very well if they didn't they would most likely lose. Was the game disappointing? Yes when your leading 2-1 and in 6 minutes drop to trailing 3-2 it's frustrating. Is the series over? No the sun will rise and it's back to working on a victory. If they take game 2 it's a best of 5 Calgary with home ice. I just don't get the melt down if Flames scored on the 5 on 3, and found a way to score in ot. Everyone would be praising the Flames are going to win the series. One game doesn't make a series just like in 2006.

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[Saint Troy]

Really like to hear Gulutzan explain Brouwer over Ferland on the PP, but then this staff refuses to use Hamilton on the top unit, baffling..

[Erick Estrada]

Originally Posted by Flaming Homer

I truly don't believe in this curse. Or that it's even in the players heads. Some of these guys haven't even played in the building more then 3 times. As much as we love the team it is constantly evolving. At this point it's a statistical anomaly. They are paid professionals if any of them are sitting there thinking "we just can't win here" or that there is some sort of curse then I want my money back.

I thought we had a good game with a few mental breakdowns that really cost us. All things that can be tweaked on the fly. I wouldn't say we win for sure Saturday but I do think we will. This series is far from over.


Go Flames Go

Well we know that curses don't really exist but if there was ever to be an example of what one may look like you could use the Flames ineptitude in the building. When you consider the weirdness of how the game started with what is normally called a too many men penalty turning into a sequence of events leading to an early powerplay goal for the Ducks and maybe the most bizarre line change in the history of the NHL you could argue that there's some sort of outside intervention going on. That line change in particular. I just cant get over the stupidity.

[mdubz]

Originally Posted by Saint Troy

Really like to hear Gulutzan explain Brouwer over Ferland on the PP, but then this staff refuses to use Hamilton on the top unit, baffling..

Point shots are obviously not part of the strategy for the first PP unit.

[flameester]

Originally Posted by calgaryblood

Wideman in for Bartkowski please. Bart was downright awful. Always making stupid pinches and giving up the puck for no reason.

Sorry but if we have learned anything this year is that GG is not going to change.

It is left/right on D and nothing else.

Bart is the only leftie so he will not be replaced by Wideman or any othe right shot Dman.

[David Struch]

Micheal Ferland should've been on the powerplay, he gets the least amount of ice time for forwards on our top three lines (11:49) Meanwhile he had three hits and lead the team with seven shots (Monahan was second with three shots)

[SOMBRI2]

Since we have The Shift ™, might as well we have The Line Change ™

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[SportsJunky]

If you play a disciplined game, you have a chance to beat a team better than yours. Flames were undisciplined last night. Even so, they could have won that game.

The players aren't dumb. They see that. I expect a much more composed Flames team in the next game.

[DuffMan]

In all my years of watching hockey, the thousands of games I've seen, I've never seen a line change that bad right down to peewee hockey.
Unbelievable.
But really, it was closer than I thought I and actually think we have a better chance than I did a few days ago.

Less penalties next game dummys.

[CrazyCaper]

If any Flames fans are off the bandwagon after one game in enemy territory and want to donate their Game 3 tickets to the CrazyCaper fund, I will give them a good home.