Practice Notes Dec 2. Guest coach: Guy Gaudreau

[redforever]

Originally Posted by sureLoss

https://twitter.com/user/status/1863712751971078168

Wow, little Johnny definitely is a tank.

[442scotty]

It’s hard to read anything about Johnny without choking up 😞

[traptor]

Why have pelletier on the 4th line with lomberg on his offside, then have duehr on the 3rd?..

[Goriders]

Originally Posted by stemit14

Would have rather seen something like this up front:

Coronato-Zary-Sharangovich (players that seem to be generating the best chances on one line)
Coleman-Backlund-Posposil (hard to play against)
Huberdeau-Kadri-Pelletier (Huberdeau and Kadri connected for goals last game and Huberdeau will try to help Pelletier get off to a good start)
Lomberg-Rooney-Duehr (grind grind grind)

It’s a wonder we can’t score any goals.

[Finger Cookin]

Originally Posted by savardandjokinen

Duehr over Pelletier in the top 9 is such a Flames move, I don’t know why I expected otherwise

Where Pelletier andf Duehr play in the bottom 9 6 is so inconsequential, I'm surprised it took the 16th reply to start the hand wringing about it.

[traptor]

Originally Posted by Finger Cookin

Where Pelletier andf Duehr play in the bottom 9 is so inconsequential, I'm surprised it took the 16th reply to start the hand wringing about it.

I disagree.

Pelletier still has 1st round pedigree, he's only 23 and he's been consistenly been a ppg in the AHL.

Let's not act like he's a bust. There's still lots of potential there.

[Finger Cookin]

Hopefully he can handle a game on the 4th line.

[Locke]

Originally Posted by traptor

I disagree.

Pelletier still has 1st round pedigree, he's only 23 and he's been consistenly been a ppg in the AHL.

Let's not act like he's a bust. There's still lots of potential there.

Whoa...slow your roll there bud....he's still French.

[GioforPM]

Originally Posted by Locke

Whoa...slow your roll there bud....he's still French.

Why do you mention he's French-Canadian every other post about him? I notice you use that comment about Huberdeau a lot too.

Did you have a bad experience upstairs in Montreal once or something?

[GioforPM]

Originally Posted by Finger Cookin

Where Pelletier andf Duehr play in the bottom 9 is so inconsequential, I'm surprised it took the 16th reply to start the hand wringing about it.

There's a pretty big difference between having Kadri/Backlund/Zary as a centre versus Rooney.

[Locke]

Originally Posted by GioforPM

Why do you mention he's French-Canadian every other post about him? I notice you use that comment about Huberdeau a lot too.

Did you have a bad experience upstairs in Montreal once or something?

That is seriously just a schtick. I just think its funny, because Huberdeau being a giant sack of useless has very little to do with him being French.

I'd have thought discerning posters would have seen through the sheer façade.

[Finger Cookin]

Originally Posted by GioforPM

There's a pretty big difference between having Kadri/Backlund/Zary as a centre versus Rooney.

On paper? Probably. These days? I'm not so sure.


Should've stayed with my gut and wrote bottom six. Editing now.

[Paulie Walnuts]

We have to be patient with Zary he is a natural C. Need to give him a good look and Conroy said him showing progress would change things.

[GioforPM]

Originally Posted by Locke

That is seriously just a schtick. I just think its funny, because Huberdeau being a giant sack of useless has very little to do with him being French.

I'd have thought discerning posters would have seen through the sheer façade.

It’s gotten old. Maybe because it was a poor premise to begin with.

[KelVarnsen]

Originally Posted by Locke

Whoa...slow your roll there bud....he's still French.

[Bend it like Bourgeois]

Originally Posted by GioforPM

It’s gotten old. Maybe because it was a poor premise to begin with.

Nope. It was originally a bit funny because it was absurd.
It’s getting funnier
And you just gave it a +1

They aren’t French fries. They’re Flames Fries.

[Strange Brew]

Originally Posted by Paulie Walnuts

We have to be patient with Zary he is a natural C. Need to give him a good look and Conroy said him showing progress would change things.

I don’t know that because he played C as a teenager that he is a natural center. That’s like calling half of the NFL natural QB’s because that’s what they played in high school.

Zary played wing in the A which is ideally where he would have learned the position as a pro. Now the Flames have little choice but to give him a look and I agree patience is needed. He’s probably not playing Center on many NHL teams.

[Paulie Walnuts]

Originally Posted by Strange Brew

I don’t know that because he played C as a teenager that he is a natural center. That’s like calling half of the NFL natural QB’s because that’s what they played in high school.

Zary played wing in the A which is ideally where he would have learned the position as a pro. Now the Flames have little choice but to give him a look and I agree patience is needed. He’s probably not playing Center on many NHL teams.

Not many teams have 2 natural centers on their roster lol.

I’m not going to lie and say I saw him in the minors but based on our options I’d much rather give him the chance to learn it over a Sharangovich or Pospisil.

It’s just hard to judge with our lack of talent. It’s not like we can slap Huberdeau on his wing to see what we can unlock.

[DoubleK]

Originally Posted by Paulie Walnuts

Not many teams have 2 natural centers on their roster lol.

Good teams do.

Not that any Calgary fan would know anything about that.

[Enoch Root]

How many points does Zary have playing C? It seems to me that the offense has dried up, now that he is focusing on being a C.