Unpopular Opinions about Flames

[savardandjokinen]

Regardless of attitude issues, the Flames could've handled Sven better.

Trading Phaneuf was one of the stupidest things that could've been done

[topfiverecords]

Flames should be daring and make Brodie a forward. His skating and passing are suited for a Tanguay like playmaker. His defensive skill is limited and he always looks like a forward playing defence to me. I’m surprised other than Engelland with Pitt, other guys haven’t been at least tried when you have the depth at a position to at least explore it.

Not confident Monahan can be durable enough to be valuable at the end of the long season and into the playoffs. He seems beat up at the end of every year and he plays through it but his performance suffers.

Fans obsessing about advanced stats over actually watching games is odd and lame.

[TheRealPepman]

Thundersticks > playoff towels > nothing

[dissentowner]

Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina

That's probably more of a popular opinion

The part about Iginla, sure. The rest, no. Most of us don't want hockey to turn into ringette like you do.

[Vinny01]

Originally Posted by activeStick

My unpopular opinions:

- Darryl Sutter was a bad GM. He was however, one of the best coaches out there.

- Tkachuk should be the eventual captain, not Monahan

- The notion that Jarome's two way game was at some detrimental level to the team is exaggerated and untrue. Iginla was a offensive winger, no different from a Gaudreau, and creating offense on a team that lacked that element should have been and was his priority. The commentary around him often sounds like Iginla blew the zone regularly while shirking his play in his own end, which wasn't true. The resulting "divide" in the room, I feel, is also dramatized for effect and if there even was one, wasn't too different from most teams where there's a group who are very defensively focused and another group who are looked at to score goals.

Disagree these are unpopular opinions.

[Textcritic]

Originally Posted by dissentowner

The part about Iginla, sure. The rest, no. Most of us don't want hockey to turn into ringette like you do.

But then that would qualify as a popular opinion, just like Jiri said.

Anyhow, I have seen ringette, and even in low-hitting games the NHL doesn’t look anything like it.


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[dissentowner]

Originally Posted by Textcritic

But then that would qualify as a popular opinion, just like Jiri said.

Anyhow, I have seen ringette, and even in low-hitting games the NHL doesn’t look anything like it.


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That is because it isn't played the way Jiri would like, otherwise...

[Roof-Daddy]

Originally Posted by playmaker

Flames' centre group sucks. It's very slow, soft and inconsistent, with no elite talent. We're not going to win it all with Monahan and Backlund as #1C and #2C.

I wouldn't go as far to say they suck, but I dont think its good enough to win a Cup.

The Flames rebuild took a massive hit with Bennett flaming out as a bottom six winger instead of what we thought he'd be when he was drafted, which was an elite number 1 C.

I still don't understand how Ryan O'Reilly was traded from the east to the west and it wasn't Treliving who scooped him up. Just baffles me.

[Gaskal]

Whenever the Flames are firmly ahead on the scoreboard, I secretly start hoping for a Brodie screw-up and a goal against so I can rib GranteedEV about it.

[Dion]

My unpopular opinion:

I don't like it when teams use the terms upper and lower body to describe player injuries.

[Harry Lime]

The most frustrating thing for me, since Peters arrived, has been player utilization.

The way that lines are set up always looks like someone loaded up a video game and set up the lines by 'player ratings'.

Gaudreau doesn't by default make his line the 'first' line.

Tkachuk - Monahan - Bennett
Gaudreau - Lindholm - Mangiapane

And i'd be glued to the screen. For all anyone knows, Bennett could be an outstanding centre, but we will never find out.

Lastly, I think the dropoff in defensive play between Lindholm, Bennett and Backlund isn't as far as people like to think. And some of the credit for that goes to Backlund. I think that he is a natural coach.

[Textcritic]

Originally Posted by dissentowner

That is because it isn't played the way Jiri would like, otherwise...

Mmmmm. No.


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[SportsJunky]

I’d like all the turtle bull#### in the game threads to end. Violently if need be.

[Strange Brew]

Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina

^Unpopular opinion:
Players are among the worst groups to listen to when it comes to understanding what is good or not good for the game.

Depends on what you mean by “players” and the “game”. People who have played hockey competitively are absolutely people we should be listening to.

So yeah I guess that would be an unpopular opinion IMO.

[Geeoff]

NHL games need more vuvuzela

[Buff]

Originally Posted by PegCityFlamesFan

We should have never traded Phaneuf simply for more sightings of Elisha Cuthbert.

Looks are overrated. Especially hers.

[The Yen Man]

My unpopular opinion: I don't like the Ronald Macdonald retro red jerseys. I know it's the same shade of red as their normal jerseys, but the black really helps accent it well. Red and white doesn't accent well with it. I don't mind the new white jersey, but have never been a fan of the red one.

[Jiri Hrdina]

Originally Posted by dissentowner

The part about Iginla, sure. The rest, no. Most of us don't want hockey to turn into ringette like you do.

Right thereby making you disagreeing with me a popular opinion not an unpopular one

[Jeff Lebowski]

Unpopular opinion: this thread is largely full of ignorant, idiotic posts.

[Enoch Root]

I doubt that is an unpopular opinion