Nice to get the win. Great effort from pretty much everyone. Fourth line continues to play well. Stajan seemed feisty tonight for some reason. Bennett continues to show flashes, but just hasn't put it all together yet. Backlund line what can you say. Every time they are out there they are creating chances. Love Tkachuk's game. He will take some penalties, but you just have to let him go and play his game. Monahan is coming guys. Just a bit more confidence and he will start shooting again. I'm hoping that nice goal in the shootout really gets him going. Hamilton was fantastic on the backend. Thought the other dmen all had off and on games especially Brodie. Really struggled at times I thought especially with the puck.
Anyone else think the ice was awful? Puck seemed to be bouncing a lot. Maybe cause they were just on the road I forgot how bad it was. A few times it killed some plays in the offensive zone. Really wish they would do something about it.
Haven't seen much talk about it on the board so don't know where to bring it up but is anyone worried about the development of Bennett? Seems so inconsistent. I hardly noticed him out there tonight in a game where the flames largely controlled the play late in the game.
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One of our best players tonight was Brodie IMO. I think he's figuring out how to be effective paired with Wideman; in turn Wideman is making less mistakes. Not perfect by any stretch but I think were starting to see some of the high calibre play Brodie is capable of.
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Hate the long bump-back pass on the PP; seems to me it just kills all the momentum when the puck-carrier hits the offensive blue line and drops the puck all the way back to the D side of the defensive blue line. It just makes no sense to me, and the way the Flames do it, it makes no sense at all as they can't control it once the new puck-carrier moves it up-ice. Time and time again they either lose it at the half-boards or dump it in poorly. Every once in a while it works decently and they get good zone time out of it. Blech.
Agreed. They really need to stop doing it as it's just not working. They seemed to get away from it in the third and they were carrying it in and that seemed to be working better. The PP still frustrates me. It's either useless with no shots on goal or they score.
blues fan here, stopped by just to see all the slashing
More hung up than we are about it
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No one else mentioned it, but solid formatting on the title! Managed to fit in all 21 slashes
LGW!
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Have we targeted anyone important yet?
Looking forward to all that slashing!
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Ahh, the ol' Reddit slash-a-roo! (I'm not going through the trouble of linking, use your imagination)
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Versteeg ties it
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That was a horrible line change.
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Gabriel just hands it to Calgary.
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And they bounce one past Dubs...
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Ouch
Dammit
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Welp
Having a lead was nice while it lasted.
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FFS. Don't just watch Versteeg skating to the goal to score...
Backlund on the PP
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We cleared players off the grease impressively, no one cleared the puck.
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what the hell is this defense lately?
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Really? This is really happening again?
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What the hell was that? He was on the puck? Isn't the call supposed to pause when ..... ####, just saw the replay....
All the Powerplays!
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STOP TAKING PENALTIES. Our PK is like 70% recently.
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I think the refs are on edge due to slashgate.
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These penalties are rubbish.
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I was wondering why I haven't been watching hockey as much this year. I think I finally know why. The officiating is garbage and the on ice product is suffering. I'm pretty close to just not following NHL hockey anymore.
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C'mon... I've almost given up football for the same reason, let's not let down hockey too
Defence!
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Not once
has the game stayed at the CGY end for more than 5 seconds.
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A zone entry would be nice. Just one.
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Yep. Not gonna win this with cute plays through the neutral zone. Old good dump the puck it is.
Granlund butt-slide
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WTF Granny? Looks like me on the ice.
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Zucker needed to shoot that and Granlund is so bad.
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That was too damn funny.
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When did we trade for Setoguchi again, and why is he wearing 64?
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Zucker passing there and not using his speed, and then Granlund falling, is just the epitome of this team right now.
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That Granlund falling is one of the best things about this game.
Tkachuk being annoying
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tchuck is such a dink
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Nice dive, Tkachuk.
He's almost as annoying as Landespuke.
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Looked like James Neal, at least the diving part.
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That smug face when they showed him in the box...
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Was just thinking the same thing (Burrows in Vancouver was my comparison). He's been running around all night acting like a frustrated child.
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Thats a headbutt and should be a match penalty.
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Tkachuk pulled a Nick Johnson!
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Hope Tkachuk becomes the next Cody McLeod.
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Sunk in the SO
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after that one. We gave it a solid shot in the thread, but the boys just didn't come through on the ice.
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Tkachuk with another nice game
also drew and had some dumb penalties, definitely going to take the Marchand/Perry award with ease annually
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This team has sorely been missing the Ville Nieminen Factor. Chucky needs to learn to refine his style and stay out of the box, but he's got that element in spades!!
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good game. thought the wild got pretty lucky both tying it (thanks wideman) and not losing in ot.
can someone explain to me why hamilton got less icetime than both wideman and engelland? he's our best dman and yet can't play top 4?
defensive icetime/roster decisions are the most frustrating part of gulutzan.
Yep, double checked the ice time sheet... He got more and more ice time as the game went on. He only had about 5 min of ice in the first and only a handful of shifts. No complaints about the d ice time tonight.
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I think this was the first game where I really though Hamilton looked like a number one defenceman. He was skating really, really well tonight (like a deer?). I thought he looked like he was making decisions very quick and closing in on the Wild all game. He looked strong too. Just a really good game from him.
Hathaway had another good game too, I thought. As did Ferland as he moved up and down the line up at times.
As much as the bump back can be annoying, the Flames didn't seem to be having as much trouble making zone entries as they used to.
Fun game (outside of the 2nd)!
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Anyone else notice that Backlund seems to be playing more chippy the last while? I wondered how it would be with Tkachuk stirring stuff up all the time, but Backlund goes right in there every time to stick up for him. Love it.
Also, Backlund's FO% was low today since he was against Koivu all night, but he won a couple of important ones against Koivu. Backlund is still a guy that is finding ways to improve his game, and doing whatever is needed to help the team win.
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Wild fans are pretty scummy with that pro-slashing rubbish.
Jokes on them though cause Johnny boy still nabbed the game winner before they slashed him out of the first game. Then the Flames avenge tonight on the scoreboard - where it matters.
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