[PGT] Flames 5 - Coyotes 3

[Nehkara]

Originally Posted by Inferno

Thank you Flames for the nice birthday gift.

They did it for both of us! My 30th today.

[Frank MetaMusil]

Hartley gives Monahan 20 minutes of ice time and he responds with +3, 56% in the dot, and a goal.

Yandle and Doan both went -3. I'd stick with this lineup. Basically the team Feaster constructed minus Hiller and Engelland.

[herashak]

i think stajan should be gone next season, the prospects will be ready to take that 3c spot by next year.

[Inferno]

nm

[Inferno]

Originally Posted by Nehkara

They did it for both of us! My 30th today.

33rd for me.

[Calgary4LIfe]

Monahan is quickly becoming such a force on this team. Flames are lucky to have him. He is really showing that he does in fact have #1 center potential. Just keeps on building up his game. Just as impressive as his offensive game lately is his defensive game. You see Hartley deploy Monahan on some key defensive zone faceoffs and assignments, and it looks like Monahan just doing everything that needs to be done out there. You can see how the other team seems to be having much more trouble containing him.

Baertschi - to quote Millions - "This is what happens when you keep moving your feet." Maybe the sickness was affecting him since the call-up (though I thought he was improving in little baby steps), but he didn't coast out there tonight. You finally saw him flying out there. He can do things at speed which is nice considering that this team has quite a few speedsters coming up. Hope he just keeps this up and becomes just as difficult a guy to send down as Jooris and Granlund are. Kid can be a huge piece of the final puzzle if he keeps progressing towards what most thought he was capable of. Really like the fact that Hartley paired him with two hard-working speedsters - really think that rubs off on Sven. Keep those 3 together please.

Speaking of Byron - you have to start thinking that Byron is a keeper now. Needs to practice his shootout moves a bit (though they usually look good - kid is snakebitten as the come on breakaways), but other than that I can't think of a single issue with this kid's game. He literally does everything out there. I don't think he will ever be a guy that you build around, but this is a kid you keep to help you win games. Really nice to see him pot a couple, and who wasn't pulling for him to get the hatty? So close.

Hiller was shaky, but it was nice to see the Flames win in spite of shaky goaltending, rather than just because of it. One of the bigger doubts near the start of the season with regards to the Flames winning was the 'unsustainable numbers' being put up by the goalies. Well, they fell back down to earth (and neither one have been 'downright terrible' - just a few squeakers) and the Flames still manage to win games. Nice to see.

Gaudreau has cooled-off somewhat though - his passes are getting picked off a bit too regularly for my liking. Looking for him to rebound soon and overtake Forsberg. Really want this kid to win the Calder. Does some really nice things in such tight spaces without any time, but then makes a pass that you see just being picked off right before it happens. Hopefully he picks up his game a bit. You can see how hard he is trying out there - both on offence and defence - so I wouldn't be worried, just hoping he gets back to being the catalyst he has shown himself to be.

By the way, though the Coyotes lost, I have to say they haven't been suffocatingly boring to watch the last few times they played the Flames. I am sure the team didn't execute "Tippet Hockey" properly, but I believe the last few games against Arizona have actually been fun to watch. Wild games weren't boring last year either, which was the other team I would cringe about watching against the Flames.

[KootenayFlamesFan]

“Since I’ve been back up here, I knew for me, it’s almost like a do-or-die,” Baertschi said. “I’ve had so many cracks at it now and, for me, I knew I had to come in here and be a presence out there. I have to be all over the puck. For me, I’m glad when I can see that I’m really involved in a game and I get a lot of chances, I create a lot. That’s just huge for me.

“I have to continue to do that, too.”

“I’m happy to see Paulie Byron get rewarded,” beamed Flames head coach Bob Hartley, who also praised Baertschi’s performance. “I felt Paulie had many chances and he’s been playing some good hockey for us, but for confidence and for fans, when you put your name on the scoresheet, there’s an added value.”

“When you go through a slump and nothing seems to work for you, then things seem really tough. The puck seems heavy. It’s tough to find your plays,” said Baertschi, who arrived with underwhelming AHL stats and was blanked in his first four skates with the Flames this season.

“If you’re an offensive player, you need those things to happen for you. Now, I’m just trying to build on it.”

http://www.calgarysun.com/2014/11/13...rizona-coyotes

[GreenLantern2814]

^^^ Gaudreau is going to have these ebbs and flows with his game all year. It's what he does - he figures out what teams do, and then the next time he sees them, he tears them apart. His two best games of the year were against Nashville and Montreal, and it shouldn't be surprising that he'd played both of them recently.

When he has a database of two or three years built up, he's going to dissect teams on a nightly basis. We have a premier talent on our team.

[KootenayFlamesFan]

Darren Haynes ‏@DarrenWHaynes
Per @EliasSports, Giordano reaching 20 pts (6 g, 14 a) in 18 gm is quickest a #Flames D has reached 20 points since Al MacInnis in 1993-94.

[MissTeeks]

Well Feaster is happy tonight:

“@therealjfeaster: Would someone PLEASE research Bob Hartley's record in 1st game back off long trip in Cgy? Synthesize, bottle, and SELL his formula! UNREAL!”

[Hugh Jahrmes]

Only caught bits of the game. If Sven is getting praise, and generating offence through the first 25 minutes whatsup with his TOI?

[stemit14]

Originally Posted by Hugh Jahrmes

Only caught bits of the game. If Sven is getting praise, and generating offence through the first 25 minutes whatsup with his TOI?

Hartley only gave him one or two shifts early in the 3rd period and then had bouma play in his spot the rest of the game. Similar to how he was sitting gaudreau for most of the 3rd periods of the first few games of the season.

[DionTheDman]

Originally Posted by MissTeeks

Well Feaster is happy tonight:

“@therealjfeaster: Would someone PLEASE research Bob Hartley's record in 1st game back off long trip in Cgy? Synthesize, bottle, and SELL his formula! UNREAL!”

Considering a massive chunk of this team is the product of Feaster's work, I'm sure he's glad to see success.

[nik-]

Originally Posted by DionTheDman

Considering a massive chunk of this team is the product of Feaster's work, I'm sure he's glad to see success.

Didn't stop him from taking shots after losses. Screw Jay Feaster.

[Where ru Chris O'Sullivan]

You would think - since he's employed, they might tell him to shut it.

Sick of this guy,

[ForeverFlameFan]

So you take out Setoguchi, make Jooris a center and wallah, a solid hard working line all around. We all saw the Sven we wanted to see. He really did look 100% tonight.

[TheDebaser]

Originally Posted by ForeverFlameFan

So you take out Setoguchi, make Jooris a center and wallah, a solid hard working line all around. We all saw the Sven we wanted to see. He really did look 100% tonight.

FYI it's voila not wallah.

[UKflames]

Originally Posted by Hugh Jahrmes

Only caught bits of the game. If Sven is getting praise, and generating offence through the first 25 minutes whatsup with his TOI?

My thoughts exactly, I didn't get to see the game either but had a look at the TOI sheet and I don't get it some times. Sven's having a good game, got 2 assists and yet gets cut down to 3/4 shifts in the third again? I believe in what Hartley is doing, the results show that, but he does like to limit his lines every third period.

[dammage79]

Originally Posted by UKflames

My thoughts exactly, I didn't get to see the game either but had a look at the TOI sheet and I don't get it some times. Sven's having a good game, got 2 assists and yet gets cut down to 3/4 shifts in the third again? I believe in what Hartley is doing, the results show that, but he does like to limit his lines every third period.

He was sat for a stretch after taking a big hit from Chipchura I believe. He missed quite a few shifts. After that You could probably account for his missing ice time by the deployment of the more defensively sound forwards for most of the third. Just a guess and I should add that it's no slight on Svens play tonight or his defensive game, but there are better defensive forwards on the team.

[devo22]

So happy that both Byron and Bärtschi got rewarded yesterday. Both talking about getting mojo/swagger/confidence afterwards just shows how much both of them needed to get on the scoresheet. At this point, I'm not even surprised anymore when guys suddenly get results once they're separated from Setoguchi. Please keep the Bärtschi-Jooris-Byron line together, I love the combination of speed and skill they bring!

Also, credit where credit is due: I have not been a fan of David Jones at all since we traded for him, but the guy is playing really good hockey recently. He's a decent player when healthy and he brings an element to the game that the Flames need. Keep it up!

Hiller needs to sit for a game or two, though I get the feeling that Ramo is still carrying a knock ... otherwise I don't think Hiller would have played yesterday. If healthy, Ramo should get the next one or two.

And when it comes to Monahan, Brodie and Giordano, I'm at a loss of words. It's not the offense that excites me most about Monahan right now (although it's great to see, obviously) - it's how he's handled the tough minutes and defensive duties he's been tasked with since Stajan and Backlund went down. Hard to believe the kid is still only 20, he's playing like a vet. And Brodie-Giordano ... they are unreal. Key plays at both ends of the ice and it's not even shocking anymore that they take matters into their own hands and score a key goal like the 4-3 yesterday. Gio is unreal, he deserves every credit he's getting from around the league right now.

Very happy with the win and the way they responded after the loss in Carolina. Great effort all around and it's good to see that they can also win despite shaky goaltending. Having the two worst forwards in the press box also helped I think.