[PGT] Golden Knights 4 - Flames 2

[dino7c]

Originally Posted by CM ONE

It's Calgary remember. These guys all have condos in Vegas. What, a guy can't cheer for the home away from home team around these parts?

If they were a bottom feeder none of those guys would be wearing that jersey except the odd kid

[jlh2640]

That was so embarrassing last night. Not acceptable in a pro league

[dino7c]

Originally Posted by jlh2640

That was so embarrassing last night. Not acceptable in a pro league

Brutal...happens to every team

[Bonecrushing Hits]

Originally Posted by dino7c

Brutal...happens to every team

Really? Seriously? That happens to every team? I'm not sure what you're watching or smoking.

[Roof-Daddy]

Guys score on their own net with the goalie pulled and an extra attacker sometimes.
Guys score on their own net WITH the goalie in it sometimes.
Teams get the tying goal scored on them late in the game all the time.
Teams get the go ahead goal scored on them late in a game all the time.

It sucks when it's your team, but #### happens. No sense in acting like it's the first time in history a collapse like that has happened.

It wasn't even that crazy. It was a brain fart that led to a lucky bounce right to a Vegas player in the right spot at the right time, then was followed up by a pretty decent individual effort by a player having an incredible break out season. Then an empty net goal.

[Bend it like Bourgeois]

Theres a great review of the plays in the athletic. Sorry if it’s been posted already.

https://theathletic.com/227368/2018/...than-a-cliche/

On Frolik

More than anything, the goal seemed to be a confluence of weirdness. Like if that puck is three inches one way Brodie just grabs it, and three the other Smith just pushes it to the corner.

On the winner - speaking of Gio and Tkachuk

Two of the Flames best players relax a tiny bit, get a tiny bit out of position, and that allows the wiggle room for a talented player to make the type of plays that bury your team.

[dino7c]

Originally Posted by Bonecrushing Hits

Really? Seriously? That happens to every team? I'm not sure what you're watching or smoking.

Yes, every team has ridiculous losses like that

you think that is the first blown lead in the last two minutes in NHL history?

[dino7c]

Originally Posted by Roof-Daddy

Guys score on their own net with the goalie pulled and an extra attacker sometimes.
Guys score on their own net WITH the goalie in it sometimes.
Teams get the tying goal scored on them late in the game all the time.
Teams get the go ahead goal scored on them late in a game all the time.

It sucks when it's your team, but #### happens. No sense in acting like it's the first time in history a collapse like that has happened.

It wasn't even that crazy. It was a brain fart that led to a lucky bounce right to a Vegas player in the right spot at the right time, then was followed up by a pretty decent individual effort by a player having an incredible break out season. Then an empty net goal.

Like two months ago Kris Russell wired a shot into his own net in the last minute of the game. At least Fro only picked up the assist and didn't beat Smith clean lol

[Mr.Coffee]

Such a strange take by Bonecrushing Hits.

Players have made on-ice mistakes in the NHL (big ones and little ones) since the NHL opened for business.

[dino7c]

Calgary had like 5 of these types of games on the winning end a few years back...ask the Bruins, did they fold the franchise? They scored on a penalty shot in the last minute to take the lead and lost.

[Robbob]

Yeah stuff like this happens. Over it now, moving on. The cup half full me is just thankful it wasn't the game winning goal in a game 7. Would suck pretty hard being a fan of that team in that scenario. Really no good.

[Mr.Coffee]

Originally Posted by Enoch Root

There were several things about last night's game that pissed me off:

1) Everyone in the building knew they would find a way to blow it, and yet they still managed to shock and awe everyone with a new twist that no Hollywood screenwriter could have thought up. Over the course of a season, there will be some bad plays and some tough losses. But it is almost nightly, these days. It is getting harder and harder each time to say "hey, it happens - move on", because it seems to happen every game and it is so predictable.

2) Yet again, the loss was largely influenced by something Gulutzan did - or more accurately, didn't do - that directly contributed to the key moment that cost them points.

3) The ongoing frustration with the offense and the PP, and sitting there, knowing - KNOWING - that they aren't going to get the knock out goal, and that the door will remain open for the inevitable.

4) The sheer fragility of the team.

But most of all, what really pissed me off last night, and has me feeling like it isn't worth it to get too tied up in this iteration of the team, is the fact that I simply don't like the way the team plays (on home ice). It is often boring. It is always frustrating. It's too passive, too unemotional, and they play a reactionary, try-not-to-lose style.

But what made it really hit home last night was the fact that Vegas plays EXACTLY the way I want the team I cheer for to play. They out-work the opposition, they support each other, they believe in each other, they forecheck like mad, and they GO TO THE NET.

They remind me a lot of the 2004 Flames.

When other teams play Vegas, the coaches and players will say "we have to match their intensity", "we have to work as hard as they do", etc. Really guys? Shouldn't that be a given?

Vegas plays the way I want my team to play. And Gallant coaches the way I want the coach to coach. But sadly, my team plays a passive, often boring, reactive, try not to lose style that has made this year tough on fans.

Last night was a microcosm of everything that is wrong with this team and this year for me.

This is the perfect post for this thread. More or less how I feel too.

[rage2]

Originally Posted by Beninho

The number of fans at the game with Vegas sweaters was just ridiculous. Yes if you are from the Nevada area I understand jumping on the bandwagon but if you are not you are basically admitting you are a bandwagon jumper. Hopefully, none of those people exchange their Vegas sweaters for Flames jerseys if the Flames somehow make it farther. If you are from Calgary and had the gall to show up to a Flames game with a Knights Jersey, you can go #### yourself

Originally Posted by N-E-B

It's one thing if you're a kid, but the grown men I saw in Knights jerseys were embarrassing.

It was my first time wearing an opposition jersey at the dome, and for the first time I saw how bitter Flames fans are. Walking out after the game, pretty much across 3 sections to get to my car, I was chirped at by 4 or 5 different people. The insults were just as creative as the Flames have been lately, same old bandwagoner insults.

I'm a fan of both teams, and I tell ya, it's pretty enjoyable when you're cheering for both sides and just enjoying a game of hockey.

As a note, there really weren't that many Knights fans at the game. I'd say the Flames to opposing team fan ratio was the worst all year. Hell, nobody even screamed "Night" during the US anthem like they do in Vegas. I did and got a few laughs from the other season ticket regulars that I know.

[GioforPM]

Originally Posted by Enoch Root

1) Everyone in the building knew they would find a way to blow it

I wasn't in the building so I can't comment on the mood there, but I was frankly more comfortable in the Flames' play with the lead, right up until the catastrophic mistake by Frolik, than in any game in the recent past. I thought the Flames were handling the Knight's comeback attempts quite well, and was waiting for Fleury to leave the net. I didn't have the sense they were going to come back at all.

[Robbob]

Originally Posted by GioforPM

I wasn't in the building so I can't comment on the mood there, but I was frankly more comfortable in the Flames' play with the lead, right up until the catastrophic mistake by Frolik, than in any game in the recent past. I thought the Flames were handling the Knight's comeback attempts quite well, and was waiting for Fleury to leave the net. I didn't have the sense they were going to come back at all.

I think that was the general sense in the crowd as well, which is why it just sucked all the life out of the building when it happened. Those sequence of events were one in a million and gift for Vegas..