[Rumour] Chris Johnston: Lindholm is interested in staying

[Hackey]

Originally Posted by Textcritic

Yeah, I am quite sure that they do.

The point is that with even average goaltending the Flames would have been a playoff team last year. With goaltending like what Markstrom delivered the previous season they would have challenged for the Division. In other words, this team is still pretty good.

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Maybe it is. I guess we will find out this season. I wouldn't be surprised if they had a bounce back year but also wouldn't be surprised if they missed again. The West has a lot of average teams, so it's definitely more open for who will make it.

[Aarongavey]

Originally Posted by Vinny01

They were a bubble team with their 2 best players having career worst seasons. Clearly had Markstrom and Huberdeau had average seasons this was a 100pt team and if they had similar years as 2022 the team would have been a top team in the league.

Hopefully the Flames have another season where all their forwards are healthy and avoid injury and a season where the backend and the goalies also stay relatively healthy.

[Textcritic]

Originally Posted by Hackey

Maybe it is. I guess we will find out this season. I wouldn't be surprised if they had a bounce back year but also wouldn't be surprised if they missed again. The West has a lot of average teams, so it's definitely more open for who will make it.

So much unknown, at this point.

But what we can all be supremely confident about is that if the Flames do have a bounce-back year it will leave you with nothing to talk about. You will undoubtedly retreat back into obscurity—like the last time the Flames were performing consistently well.

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[Hackey]

Originally Posted by Textcritic

So much unknown, at this point.

But what we can all be supremely confident about is that if the Flames do have a bounce-back year it will leave you with nothing to talk about. You will undoubtedly retreat back into obscurity—like the last time the Flames were performing consistently well.

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Woah someone's sour lol. The Flames were garbage last year and I barely posted.

[Vinny01]

Originally Posted by Aarongavey

Hopefully the Flames have another season where all their forwards are healthy and avoid injury and a season where the backend and the goalies also stay relatively healthy.

Agreed hopefully they don’t lose a top 4 Dman for the entire season like they did last year.

[dissentowner]

Originally Posted by Hackey

Woah someone's sour lol. The Flames were garbage last year and I barely posted.

Actually your post count was pretty consistent last season. It was the season before where you barely posted.

[Aarongavey]

Originally Posted by Vinny01

Agreed hopefully they don’t lose a top 4 Dman for the entire season like they did last year.

Hopefully Zadorov gets 14 goals again. If everything comes together (virtually no injuries, players who had career years last year such as Zadorov, Backlund, Coleman, Rasmus, Dube have career years again and the guys who had bad years have good years) the Flames are easily a playoff team. If one of those three things goes sideways they are likely a bubble team and if two of those things go sideways they are likely a lottery team with a top 10 pick.

[Hackey]

Originally Posted by dissentowner

Actually your post count was pretty consistent last season. It was the season before where you barely posted.

Well since you're keeping tabs on my posting how many in season posts did I have last year?

[jayswin]

Originally Posted by dissentowner

Actually your post count was pretty consistent last season. It was the season before where you barely posted.

How did you go about figuring that out so quickly?

[dissentowner]

Originally Posted by jayswin

How did you go about figuring that out so quickly?

You can look back on a person's history. It is also from memory, there were a lot of the negative crowd that were pretty silent two years ago. Then last year all of the sudden these posters are back posting every day. If you can show me a time period where Hackey was not negative about the Calgary Flames feel free to show me.

[dino7c]

Originally Posted by Hackey

I'd rather them aspire to be more than a bubble team so no.

There is no such thing as a bubble team anymore...its takes near 100 points to make the playoffs most years

Panthers got lucky getting in with 92 and made the finals

this isn't the 21 team NHL of old

[dino7c]

Originally Posted by jayswin

How did you go about figuring that out so quickly?

its not exactly rocket appliances to figure out which posters mostly post when things are bad, after losses, ect.

next someone is going to tell me Spurs is negative

[midniteowl]

Originally Posted by dino7c

There is no such thing as a bubble team anymore...its takes near 100 points to make the playoffs most years

Panthers got lucky getting in with 92 and made the finals

this isn't the 21 team NHL of old

Panthers were prime example of get in and anything can happens.

[wwkayaker]

Originally Posted by dino7c

its not exactly rocket appliances to figure out which posters mostly post when things are bad, after losses, ect.

next someone is going to tell me Spurs is negative

Get out?

[jayswin]

Originally Posted by dino7c

its not exactly rocket appliances to figure out which posters mostly post when things are bad, after losses, ect.

next someone is going to tell me Spurs is negative

He's over the moon that people think he's "yikes".

[Hackey]

Originally Posted by dissentowner

You can look back on a person's history. It is also from memory, there were a lot of the negative crowd that were pretty silent two years ago. Then last year all of the sudden these posters are back posting every day. If you can show me a time period where Hackey was not negative about the Calgary Flames feel free to show me.

Well one playoff run in 30 years there hasn't been a whole lot to be positive about lol.

[Hackey]

Originally Posted by jayswin

How did you go about figuring that out so quickly?

He didn't. He made it up like his story about Gaudreau re-signing.

[flamesgod]

Originally Posted by Hackey

He didn't. He made it up like his story about Gaudreau re-signing.

Hackety hack, don’t talk back.

[Textcritic]

Originally Posted by Hackey

Well one playoff run in 30 years there hasn't been a whole lot to be positive about lol.

But that's just it: even when there ARE small things to be positive about—like nearly the entire 202–22 season—a few of you guys are just nowhere to be found. You only come out to bitch.

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[DeluxeMoustache]

Originally Posted by dino7c

There is no such thing as a bubble team anymore...its takes near 100 points to make the playoffs most years

Panthers got lucky getting in with 92 and made the finals

this isn't the 21 team NHL of old

There is no such thing as the colour of the sky