Speaking of jersey concepts, would anyone be able to dig up Zangler (or Zandler's) jersey design?
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Originally Posted by Zarley
I'm a long time lurker, I usually just read CP to get Flames news and roster updates but reading this thread inspired me to register and post. I love the Flames' original 1980-94 look, it was (and still is) one of the best uniforms in the league. The current home and road jerseys are a mess: ugly vertical and horizontal stripes, useless armpit piping, and out-of-place flag patches. I was messing around in Photoshop and came up with with my ideal Flames set; based on the classic flames sweaters but with a few minor tweaks:
Home: The main difference is that the red is one shade darker. I loved watching the Flames school the Oil last night in their vintage threads, but they are a little bit bright on TV. The red should be slightly darker - the same shade the Habs use. Also the hem and pants stripes now match the arm stripes, and the alternate captain letter is no longer a generic 'A.'
Road: This one has a few more changes from the '80's white sweater. I added gold trim to the red shoulders, the hem and arm stripes are now the same pattern as on the red jersey, and I included a lace-up collar because I felt like it.
Alternate: I've never been a fan of black being included in the Flames' colour scheme, but I could live with it on a third jersey. I also have a soft spot for the 1990s 'pedestal' uniforms. Most fans associate that look with the futility of the Young Guns era, but those were the jerseys they wore when I first became a Flames fan and I think they would've been great sweaters if only they didn't include that stupid pedestal detail. I realize that many fans still love the black C jerseys from 2003-04 so my design for the third is a bit of a mashup between those two styles.
Also, no shoulder patches because it's damn near impossible to come up with an alternate logo anywhere near as awesome as the Flaming C, and that space is reserved for Stanley Cup Finals patches only.
So gorgeous
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McDavid?
Seriously, Johnny has proven not to be a defensive liability, that he can play against the best players in his peer group and dominate when given more ice to work with.
I'm sure Hartley has his reasons, but shouldn't he at least try him once to see if his reasoning is correct? Johnny hasn't played a single shift in any of our OT games.
Earned, not given. Johnny earned the opportunity to play in OT tonight.
and i see no reason why we can't question the coaching staff, thats pretty much what a community message board is for isn't it?
Gaudreau's game is getting progressively better. Hartley is starting to show he actually has a good feel for what these young guys need. He'll give him the 4 on 4 ice time when he thinks the time is right.
Rediculous how much impatience there is, Gaudreau doesn't need to graduate to every part of the game right away. Fans need to stop confusing their desire to see Gaudreau play all the time right now with what's best for his development.
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Game take, the Flames have 2 very solid goalies. Johnny G is proving to be a very talented and smart hockey player, meanwhile Glencross is not.
Was at the game so maybe i didn't notice but i am pretty sure JG Hartley did not play for any shift in OT.
I only saw about half the second period and most of the third (I was getting angry at my fireplace. The wood did not burn quite as I expected.) From what I saw, two hockey teams entered the arena... and two exited. Except one came out victorious and the other lost. The losing team was the team I cheer for: the Calgary Flames. This makes me even more angry at the fireplace. Who built this thing? Snowmen? Honestly, it has one function: burn wood. How hard can that be?
Just so you know, I pieced this together mostly from the bits I watched in between yelling at the fireplace and searching the internet for ways to poison aggressive sheep, because frankly the sheep are scaring me.
The Game
We lost, and that is kind of bad. Still, nobody lost any limbs and I don't think there were any hard feelings. Any day you leave work like that is a GIFT.
The Goat
I did not watch this game with the goat. The llama and the duck (whose name is George) were there but the duck kept wandering off to look for beetles. I keep them inside during game time (the llama and the goat, not beetles). The sheep are getting mutinous.
But if I had to choose a bad player from the Flames... Diaz, maybe? Was he playing tonight? I don't know. I am not good at this.
There Goes My Hero!
Johnny Gaudreau has returned to form, and that form is: "screaming baboon lit on fire and catapulted at my tour bus by angry natives." This has happened to me twice in my lifetime, and I still have nightmares. Frankly, I expect Gaudreau to play like this every game from now on. Don't disappoint me, Johnny Hockey, or I might as well just give up, sell my stuff, get the old members of the cult back together, and start claiming the comet is making a return.
Three Stars
1. Johnny Gaudreau: Let's face it, the boy is a creature from beyond the hallowed halls of the wailing dead. A regular banshee in red and yellow silks, Johnny Hockey is.
2. The Lightning player who scored the winning goal in OT. He's pretty good I guess.
3. ???? - I can't remember who I had picked here anymore, so let's go with Johnny Hockey again. I quite like him and he made a nifty dangle through the slot and beat all the Lightning guys. Cool.
Overall Game Take
I think the Flames did well, despite the loss. The cord of "seasoned" cedar I bought? Pure garbage. I mean, seriously: you put wood in the fireplace and light it on fire. How hard it that? Thousands of buildings burn down each year BY ACCIDENT and I can't light a bunch of wood on fire on purpose to save my life? And the bloody fireplace has a draft that SHOOTS AIR DOWN AT THE FIRE and puts it out every time it gets going. I swear that someone reverse-engineered the perfect fire supression system, stuck it in my chimney, and called it a day. I hate my fireplace so much. The duck is cold and the sheep are knocking on the door. Help me.
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I only saw about half the second period and most of the third (I was getting angry at my fireplace. The wood did not burn quite as I expected.) From what I saw, two hockey teams entered the arena... and two exited. Except one came out victorious and the other lost. The losing team was the team I cheer for: the Calgary Flames. This makes me even more angry at the fireplace. Who built this thing? Snowmen? Honestly, it has one function: burn wood. How hard can that be?
Just so you know, I pieced this together mostly from the bits I watched in between yelling at the fireplace and searching the internet for ways to poison aggressive sheep, because frankly the sheep are scaring me.
The Game
We lost, and that is kind of bad. Still, nobody lost any limbs and I don't think there were any hard feelings. Any day you leave work like that is a GIFT.
The Goat
I did not watch this game with the goat. The llama and the duck (whose name is George) were there but the duck kept wandering off to look for beetles. I keep them inside during game time (the llama and the goat, not beetles). The sheep are getting mutinous.
But if I had to choose a bad player from the Flames... Diaz, maybe? Was he playing tonight? I don't know. I am not good at this.
There Goes My Hero!
Johnny Gaudreau has returned to form, and that form is: "screaming baboon lit on fire and catapulted at my tour bus by angry natives." This has happened to me twice in my lifetime, and I still have nightmares. Frankly, I expect Gaudreau to play like this every game from now on. Don't disappoint me, Johnny Hockey, or I might as well just give up, sell my stuff, get the old members of the cult back together, and start claiming the comet is making a return.
Three Stars
1. Johnny Gaudreau: Let's face it, the boy is a creature from beyond the hallowed halls of the wailing dead. A regular banshee in red and yellow silks, Johnny Hockey is.
2. The Lightning player who scored the winning goal in OT. He's pretty good I guess.
3. ???? - I can't remember who I had picked here anymore, so let's go with Johnny Hockey again. I quite like him and he made a nifty dangle through the slot and beat all the Lightning guys. Cool.
Overall Game Take
I think the Flames did well, despite the loss. The cord of "seasoned" cedar I bought? Pure garbage. I mean, seriously: you put wood in the fireplace and light it on fire. How hard it that? Thousands of buildings burn down each year BY ACCIDENT and I can't light a bunch of wood on fire on purpose to save my life? And the bloody fireplace has a draft that SHOOTS AIR DOWN AT THE FIRE and puts it out every time it gets going. I swear that someone reverse-engineered the perfect fire supression system, stuck it in my chimney, and called it a day. I hate my fireplace so much. The duck is cold and the sheep are knocking on the door. Help me.
Lol wut
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Over 17 minutes of ice time in his second ever NHL game... Not to mention he was out there in the most important moments of the game. Jooris has looked like a true veteran out there. I hope he can keep up his play and stay up for the rest of the year.
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What can you say about Johnny Hockey. The Dome just lights up when he has the puck, and the roof was nearly blown off on that assist. Hope the kid wasn't injured too bad...
Feel bad for Jooris. Played a relatively good game (even got some PP time I think), and was so freaking close to clearing the puck out of the zone and it winds up in our net seconds later...
Enjoyed watching Stajan throwing the body around on the 4th line (or at least trying to). Not sure if/when he'll slot back in the top 9, but he's doing what he's asked to do -- sign of a good vet.
I only saw about half the second period and most of the third (I was getting angry at my fireplace. The wood did not burn quite as I expected.) From what I saw, two hockey teams entered the arena... and two exited. Except one came out victorious and the other lost. The losing team was the team I cheer for: the Calgary Flames. This makes me even more angry at the fireplace. Who built this thing? Snowmen? Honestly, it has one function: burn wood. How hard can that be?
Just so you know, I pieced this together mostly from the bits I watched in between yelling at the fireplace and searching the internet for ways to poison aggressive sheep, because frankly the sheep are scaring me.
The Game
We lost, and that is kind of bad. Still, nobody lost any limbs and I don't think there were any hard feelings. Any day you leave work like that is a GIFT.
The Goat
I did not watch this game with the goat. The llama and the duck (whose name is George) were there but the duck kept wandering off to look for beetles. I keep them inside during game time (the llama and the goat, not beetles). The sheep are getting mutinous.
But if I had to choose a bad player from the Flames... Diaz, maybe? Was he playing tonight? I don't know. I am not good at this.
There Goes My Hero!
Johnny Gaudreau has returned to form, and that form is: "screaming baboon lit on fire and catapulted at my tour bus by angry natives." This has happened to me twice in my lifetime, and I still have nightmares. Frankly, I expect Gaudreau to play like this every game from now on. Don't disappoint me, Johnny Hockey, or I might as well just give up, sell my stuff, get the old members of the cult back together, and start claiming the comet is making a return.
Three Stars
1. Johnny Gaudreau: Let's face it, the boy is a creature from beyond the hallowed halls of the wailing dead. A regular banshee in red and yellow silks, Johnny Hockey is.
2. The Lightning player who scored the winning goal in OT. He's pretty good I guess.
3. ???? - I can't remember who I had picked here anymore, so let's go with Johnny Hockey again. I quite like him and he made a nifty dangle through the slot and beat all the Lightning guys. Cool.
Overall Game Take
I think the Flames did well, despite the loss. The cord of "seasoned" cedar I bought? Pure garbage. I mean, seriously: you put wood in the fireplace and light it on fire. How hard it that? Thousands of buildings burn down each year BY ACCIDENT and I can't light a bunch of wood on fire on purpose to save my life? And the bloody fireplace has a draft that SHOOTS AIR DOWN AT THE FIRE and puts it out every time it gets going. I swear that someone reverse-engineered the perfect fire supression system, stuck it in my chimney, and called it a day. I hate my fireplace so much. The duck is cold and the sheep are knocking on the door. Help me.
Out of Thanks, but this is the greatest game review I have ever read. Thank you.
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"You know, that's kinda why I came here, to show that I don't suck that much" ~ Devin Cooley, Professional Goaltender
I was particularly watching three Flames tonight: Gaudreau, Jooris, and Wideman.
Wideman surprised me slightly by not doing anything foolish, and of course he did the obvious thing with that gorgeous seeing-eye pass in the slot from Gaudreau. He'll do. For now.
Gaudreau, well, made that gorgeous seeing-eye pass in the slot. He's rapidly emerging as the team's QB whenever he's on the ice. The money play is to get him the puck in the neutral zone and let him enter the attacking zone with possession. If there's a play to be made from there, he'll find it. If not, he'll find it. Johnny Hockey is actually a 30-foot-tall, five-ton Megatroid from the planet Koozebane. He only looks small because he has the capacity to warp the space-time continuum.
Jooris is just amazingly solid on every part of the ice. He's got enough offensive skill to keep the opposition honest, but it's his defensive game that really appeals to me. Looked like a vet out there. Calm, fearless, always seemed to go right where he should. Blew it a bit in OT, but still: This man will swallow over a thousand pucks for us. We should let him live and reproduce.
I wanted to look out for Monahan, but frankly, most of the time I couldn't spot him with a searchlight, a magnifying glass, and 34 eight-by-ten glossies with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one explaining what it was. He didn't make any embarrassing mistakes, but he didn't make any noticeable plays either. This would be a good thing if Monahan were a stay-at-home defenceman. Pity they insist on playing him out of position.
I didn't set out to notice Ramo; he made me do it, honest. He could have done better on the goal in regulation, but he almost made up for it with that incredible save in OT. Not many goalies in the NHL, I suspect, will ever be able to say that they faced Stamkos and Drouin on a 2-on-0 and shut them down.
At this point, I'm not sure why there's all the hype about Tampa Bay. Looked to me like the Lightning have one super-skilled line, one good pressure line, and a dozen skaters who could possibly find the net with the help of the aforementioned 34 eight-by-ten glossies. Oh, and a Terminator in net. This game showed why they were wise to hire some help for Bishop.
All in all, I have decided to stand down from Defcon 2. This means that my plan to blow up the Saddledome from sheer frustration remains on hold for the moment. I have therefore removed the homemade rubber nuclear weapon from the back of my car, but I am keeping the detonator in the glove box just in case.
That is all. Carry on.
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i came home from the game with disappointed of course, but also with a profound respect for what Gio did for the culture of this team with his hit and fight.
flames hockey, it's back.
