He's probably up there but it's tough to argue against Scott Arniel and John Hynes right now.
Totally agree, Carbery in Wsh probably up there as well as who saw that team being top 5 either?
I hope Huska gets a nod if we keep this up, but ultimately I’m good if someone else wins as it always seems like the Jack Adams is the kiss of death for many coaches (even though it’s probably all coincidence)
Really liked Rooney’s game tonight. Not sure how it came accross on TV, but at the game I thought he really stood out on that 4th line (which was fantastic as a unit as well).
good post, he unfairly takes too much heat
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Massive shoutout to the 4th line. They were dominant tonight.
When Conroy went out and signed Lomberg for that contract, it reminded me of the Engelland contract where we were made fun of that is was per year and not the entire length.
Conroy from his trades, the draft, to that signing, I fully agree a turn around “on the fly” is capable, with maintaining a workplace where (and it’s funny this actually is true now and not just a sign on the wall) it’s always earned never given.
Just watched the highlights and one thing that didn’t show too well on camera as it did in person (at least on the angle I saw) was Huberdeau’s brilliant touch pass to Zary on the game winning goal. It was so slick.
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Conroy from his trades, the draft, to that signing, I fully agree a turn around “on the fly” is capable, with maintaining a workplace where (and it’s funny this actually is true now and not just a sign on the wall) it’s always earned never given.
He's done an excellent job of hiring players who will set the benchmark for effort and consistency. If a young player wants to make the Flames' roster, he has to work hard enough to outperform players like Rooney and Lomberg. Pure skill will get you by for a while, but it takes hard work to stay ahead of those players during the times when your scoring runs dry.
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Are the Flames not popular? As far as I know it's not a small city and it's in Canada but their board is more dead than most boards on HF.
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I think its like a million and a half people, so, no NYC, but not exactly a small town...
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So why is their board so dead?
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They don’t have the internet out there
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They have their own dedicated internet forum: Calgarypuck Forums - The Unofficial Calgary Flames Fan Community
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Before I forget....
Expect big time games from Craig Conroy, Miikka Kiprusoff and Bret "The Hitman" Hart.
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Flames always score on like the first shift against us in Calvary.
Lomb Bomb
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Well apparently my “#### Ryan Lomberg” post got yanked (?)…. So, here for good measure, #### RYAN LOMBERG. Time for a little payback
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It's too bad Rempe isn't making the trip home
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Lomberg looks like zibanejad and Trocheck had a baby with Kelly leek and Tom petty
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Edstrom should take on Lomberg
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Slimy ####
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I’d like to see Vesey get a piece of Lomberg tonight.
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i wouldnt be mad if trouba chicken winged tf outta lomberg for that #### on vesey in the playoffs
The Wolf is Loose
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That goalie of theirs is pretty good. Gonna take a lot of hard work and focusing on finish to beat him
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Also my vote for the tandem with the coolest names: Wolf and Vladar.
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Darth Vladar
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Wolf’s third jersey setup is amazing.
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Are we really going to the little goalie thing with Wolf? TNT spent at least 30 minutes talking about how small Sarros is last night.
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wow, this Calgary goalie is tiny.
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The Rangers know they're allowed to take shots?
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So they’re getting goalied tonight?
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They need to get pucks below the net, forecheck, and cycle ... Calgary sits 4 guys in front of the net .. you have to wear on them
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I really enjoy watching Wolf play and think he has sick setup with the Flames’ third jersey. Could the team get some o-zone time so we can see Wolf more?
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we're getting shutout by this noname scrub, arent we
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Definitely not a no name scrub, one of the best goalie prospects in the league.
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Potential rookie of the year and highly touted young goalie yes
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Woolf was a vacuum
BOO THIS MAN!
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Fox has been a ranger for like 6 years. And he wanted to play for his home town team. Why the #### are they still booing all these years later? Christ. Even the Montreal fans stopped booing Krieder about the whole price thing.
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Wild that they are still booing Fox lol
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I respect the #### out of the Flames being petty enough to still boo Fox. That’s some good hockey fan-ing
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Is all the booing not firing Fox up? Like come on. Get some fight in you Fox
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Good lord Calgary get the #### over Fox already. Hope he bags a hat trick tonight.
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Why do they Boo Fox?
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He was drafted by Calgary, refused to sign, and basically forced his way to the Rangers
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In fairness to Fox I don’t want to move to Calgary either
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Can you imagine if Fox was here and was like “nah I don’t wanna play for you guys” and then won a Norris with Calgary? I’d boo him too lmao glad he’s here but I can hardly blame them
Scoronato breaks the ice
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If you ask a 5 year old to draw Seth Jarvis, you get Matt Coronato
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Well at least it wasn’t first minute.
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Igor OBJECTIVELY should’ve had that one.
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Love Igor but he has been letting in a lot of easy goals right away.
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These opposition scoring goals first is getting pretty stale
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Experience NYR hockey where the players skate around for 60 minutes and do nothing
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People who know nothing about goaltending trying to say that was a bad goal. Absolute snipe through a screen.
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Please no early goal. Against.
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Can Miller make any less effort on that goal?
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He gave up 5+ to buffalo and utah at msg
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It’s high glove. It’s always been high glove.
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absolutely hate that Schneider conceded the blue line instead of stay up and deny it, then pointed to nobody as Coronato took the puck on the drop pass
don't let them walk right in...
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Defense loves screening our goalies.
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just once could we score first
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I know Igor probably wants that one back, but that was a legitimately wicked shot.
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not that it was 100% his fault but letting that goal in isnt helping justify 12m aav, hes consistent af in the playoffs and thats when it counts most but if u want to eat up the cap space that can build a cup winning team u cant be lettin those ones past u
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This game has all the excitement of a funeral.
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CGY dumps it in, 55/8/4 go to get it, they throw it around the boards to nobody, CGY gets it again, generates offense, 55/8/4 throw it out to the NZ, CGY starts the cycle again
NYR's biggest weaknesses on full display in this first period so far
False Start
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Boy oh boy I can't wait for the rangers to start playing at 10, because that's when the game must start, I haven't seen any hockey played by them yet
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Something needs to be said in the locker room because holy #### that was the worst period of the entire season
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we stink offensively, and we stink defensively
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Smith has like 4-5 turnovers ... sheesh!
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20 shots in a single period is utterly embarassing.
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Yeesh. Fortunate to be down by just one.
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So I guess we’re just committed to playing bad first periods now?
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Lucky to have only given up one goal on that 20m penalty kill.
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20 shots to 4 is insane
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Hope lavi and Igor chew the rest of the team's heads off during intermission. Terrible play. Can't stay out of our own end and letting Shesty be under constant fire. And the penalties. I hope Mika is okay, but I'm not betting he'll come back in this game :/
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i feel like if anybody under the age of 25 put up a period in which the shot attempts with them on the ice were 16-1 in favor of the other team, that under-25 year old wouldn't see the ice the rest of the game
but in the case of NYR, they not only keep playing said players, but have them play the most TOI of everybody on the team
the leashes and nepotism this team gives to Lindgren and Trouba is crazy, especially considering Jones basically has to have a Heiskanen-level game to even sniff 2nd pair minutes
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NYR has an atrocious period and what does Laviolette do? he starts Lindgren/Trouba again, and immediately out of the gate Coronato has an A+ chance off the rush
jesus christ already
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Well, the book is definitely out on how to play the Rangers. This team cannot deal with pressure checking. 35-10 shot differential. I don’t know if it’s funny or sad.
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Path to victory is stealing this game with Rangers Hockey (getting bailed out by Igor and scoring on a PP goal)
Sharangoalvich rips a one timer
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#### ####ing penalty to take. Bush league ####
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Either we figure out how tf to get pucks out of our zone or every game starts to look like this eventually when teams start exploiting it like Calgary is tonight
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So we still haven’t figured out how to deal with an aggressive forecheck then?
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This is getting stupid like either they need to start getting the puck of their sticks faster or something because Jesus Christ
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19 shots in the first period for Calgary. I feel like that’s bad.
Sorry, that might be 20-21 by now.
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Flames look like the 2024 panthers
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Watching LaFreniere get absolutely abused in his own zone is comedy gold. If this guy isn't scoring 50 goals, he is a waste. He isn't score 50 goals.
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Throwback game getting caved. Always fun.
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Play some ####ing basic hockey
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It’s amazing how bad we are against aggressive teams.
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Hopefully Laviolette will inform his players that the game has started.
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Trouba and Lindgren are incapable of doing anything positive as a pair. Even simple passes are in skates, pucks thrown to nobody. There’s like a 80% chance of the puck enters the zone on one of their shifts that they’re going to get pinned.
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This might be the worst game I’ve ever seen them play, I’m not even being hyperbolic.
European Handball…?
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Completely absurd. They are calling the softest ####ing game but then an actual video review and they decide nah we don’t call it tight like that.
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It touched his hand and went in another direction then another player touched it. That’s a hand pass
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That exact play is called a hand pass 9 times out of 10 in real time. They usually only let the deflection off the glove go when a player isn’t looking or has both hands in his stick and it just hits him. This guy took his hand off his stick and reached for the puck with clear intent. That’s a hand pass and the fact it wasn’t overturned is a joke.
Also they never should’ve been on the PP to begin with. Panarin didn’t slash the player on the play he literally just had his stick sitting there he didn’t even move it.
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So he directs the puck with his hand, the Flames player delays touching it but it’s not a hand pass.
Just making it up as they go along
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That has to be the worst review call I've ever seen
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Rangers to refs: You got any more of that game management?
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(b) A player or goalkeeper shall not be allowed to “bat” the puck in the air, or push it along the ice with his hand, directly to a teammate
Deflecting is still batting the thing
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OH #### YOU REFS. THIS IS ABSURD. THEY SRE CALLING A #### GAME AND PUNISHING US FOR THEIR INABILITY TO DO THE JOB
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No league in professional sports has worse refs than the NHL. Every one of them is a complete ####in idiot.
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same puck off a hand and this time it’s a hand pass
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This time it's a hand pass, eh?
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HAHAHHA they called a hand pass. #### you zebras
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I remember when Trocheck was kicked out of a game last year against the Islanders due to abuse of officials. He should do it again.
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it’s ok we win this 3-2
Zary with an absolute snipe
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Sit the #### down Zary
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50 shots allowed... ####s bound to go in
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Absolutely a miserable effort by Kakko on their 3rd goal.
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You KNEW zary was scoring after Joes early game diss.
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Really? TNT by AC/DC? What a lame ass goal song lmao
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Remember when they said zary wasn’t a top 6 player yet. Lordie
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The Flames could end this game with over 50 shots. That’s an issue. idk how people are jumping on Igor for a goal scored of off Kakko’s stick when he’s at .935 in a game where he let up 3 goals.
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just #### defense by Kakko and terrible by Igor.
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Yep, we're supposed to ignore his CONSISTENT softies. CONSISTENT. Only thing he's f***ing consistent at.
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I mean it deflected off kakko’s stick but still…
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How many f***ing pucks do you people want Igor to stop? All of them apparently. All 50 f***ing shots.
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Pucks just explode off of mikas stick. Every single time
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Igor has a soft goal fetish. He is so unreliable. You know he will give up a back breaking softy. Doesn't matter how good the rest of the game is. You're not winning a cup with a goalie like him. He basically did THAT against the Panthers all series. All f***ing series. And the simpletons ate it up.
Mutually Frustrating 6 on 5
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that certainly was one of the games of all time
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I’m not sure I’ve ever seen a more ineffective 6x5. Or the opposing team missing so many empty nets.
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I really don't know what was more embarrassing. The rangers or the flames attempts at the empty net
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This feels like a professional team playing practice against an amateur team. But I think an amateur team would play harder.
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I know pulling goalies is the norm but is it really smart to do that in a game where Shesterkin is the only reason we even have a shot?
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6 on 5 that looked like a PK
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Calgary Flames with the empty net, the gang that can't shoot straight.
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That guy taking a high slap shot at the end had me dying, I literally yelled out, "you're going to kill someone, you stupid bastard" HAHAHA
Glad Huberdeau found it funny. He is who almost got killed.
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Rangers couldn’t even aggressively forecheck with an empty net. I wonder if they’re allergic to effort sometimes.
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Maybe they should practice 6 on 5 with a 2 minute clock. Because that was ####ing awful at the end. They looked like a team of 12 year olds who didn’t know how to pass to each other or find the goddamn puck in their skates.
*Desire to Super Nintendo Chalmers intensifies*
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Skinner will probably be benched next game after scoring.
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We some how had the worst goaltender in the game when the other guy let in a dump in from past the red line.
Unreal.
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If Skinner had a "Campbell" namebar on his jersey this season he'd already be in Bako
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Dustin Wolf - 7th round.
Just sayin'
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Everyone knew our biggest weakness was goaltending and defense and Jackson goes out and signs 3 aging/injury prone forwards while letting 3 of our youngest (25, 23, 23) and fastest players go. Emberson, Dermott, Brown pickups all looking varying degrees of awful. Absolutely nothing done to address league worst goaltending. Offseason started with so much hope but what an abject failure.
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Fleury lets in a goal from the red line and still the better goalie tonight. f*** Skinner and especially f*** Dustin Schwartz
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Good thing for those couple pity shots from the wild at the end there - Skinny managed to make it back above .800.
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It's time to start ditching the notion that the effort and compete level isn't there/consistent. We need to accept that fact that 75% of our roster is old, washed, as well as tired from the long run, and just doesn't have the pace anymore.
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Hands down the worst lateral movement of any goalie in the league, combined with horrible balance and agility. The guy trips over his own feet regularly and ends up swimming in his crease.
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Skinner nothing goal. Whoopee.
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Kind of like that Homer Simpson quote:
This is the worst the Oilers have played all season.
The worst they played so far..
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Do these absolute cowards ever talk about our goaltending?
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I guarantee you that the org is making goaltending a taboo subject. Probably threatening to revoke media passes and such.
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You don't care that we can't even get ahead of a team tanking lol.
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I don’t give a #### about Calgary
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Listen, it's unreasonable to expect your goaltender to win you one game out of every 20 when you get a bunch of good bounces and find your legs.
Kindly ignore that every other goaltender in the league does this routinely.
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Just watched the highlights and one thing that didn’t show too well on camera as it did in person (at least on the angle I saw) was Huberdeau’s brilliant touch pass to Zary on the game winning goal. It was so slick.
He’s a well oiled machine
You remember in hockey practices when you don’t have a goalie, you play posts?
I watched the game live over here.
I was fully on the tank train, but these guys won't ever quit.
I am 100% behind Huska and the boys. Let's keep upsetting the apple cart, and keep the winning going, and screw over the so called superior teams.
Go Flames Go.
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Flames always score on like the first shift against us in Calvary.
That typo always makes me laugh.
It reminds of one time - years ago - Ben Affleck was on a talk show and he was asked if his family was religious growing up and he said he was always more interested in sports. Whenever the priest would say that Jesus was crucified at Calvary, he wondered why they went all the way to where the Flames play to do it.
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Everyone knew our biggest weakness was goaltending and defense and Jackson goes out and signs 3 aging/injury prone forwards while letting 3 of our youngest (25, 23, 23) and fastest players go. Emberson, Dermott, Brown pickups all looking varying degrees of awful. Absolutely nothing done to address league worst goaltending. Offseason started with so much hope but what an abject failure.
This is a most excellent example of the nonsensical medias annual kool-aid filled off-season offering, and the lemmings who lap it up that support that franchise.
The vast majority of the hockey world objectively looked at their moves over the summer and noted repeatedly that the club had the exact issues as this poster describes. Not in Conners world though....no criticism of the hallowed grease spots allowed. Stanely Cup favorites and all that you know.
It would be frightening if it wasn't so damn hilarious AND predictable.
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