How Do You Think the Flames Will Do This Year?

[PaperBagger'14]

Originally Posted by dissentowner

Seems a little harsh dude. That's a pretty brutal attack for not agreeing with someone's hockey opinion.

That post had to be a troll job, there is no way that it was actually meant to be a serious, well intentioned post.

A read through their post history shows their trolling. Their last trade proposal of lindholm was:

"Trade Lindholm and our first for Columbus' third overall, or ideally Lundholm straight for the third overall."

So a few months ago lindholm was worth the 3rd overall pick, now he has to be packaged with vladar to get a former flames cast-off?

This is a troll account.

More reasons I believe this to be a troll, they said Huska was a safe pick. Well, no, he wasn't at all. Huska was a non difference maker who helped lead the flames to missing the playoffs and IMO deserved no chance at the head coach position. Backlund who wanted to leave the team earlier this summer was not a safe pick for captain. The whole post was so stupid I honestly can't see how anyone would post it with anyone expecting to take it seriously.

[Textcritic]

Originally Posted by Aarongavey

Said barely miss the playoffs. Core of the team is one year older, they have the talent to stay in games but Edmonton, Vegas, LA, Colorado, Dallas, wild, kraken should be better. Maybe they squeak in in 8th.

Apparently, the Flames are the only team in the West whose core is one year older, and what reason is there to expect that any of Vegas, Colorado, Edmonton, Minnesota and Seattle "should be better"?

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[butterfly]

Originally Posted by Textcritic

Apparently, the Flames are the only team in the West whose core is one year older, and what reason is there to expect that any of Vegas, Colorado, Edmonton, Minnesota and Seattle "should be better"?

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I think they meant those teams should be better than Calgary, not better than they were last year.

[CalgarySames]

Originally Posted by PaperBagger'14

That post had to be a troll job, there is no way that it was actually meant to be a serious, well intentioned post.

A read through their post history shows their trolling. Their last trade proposal of lindholm was:

"Trade Lindholm and our first for Columbus' third overall, or ideally Lundholm straight for the third overall."

So a few months ago lindholm was worth the 3rd overall pick, now he has to be packaged with vladar to get a former flames cast-off?

This is a troll account.

More reasons I believe this to be a troll, they said Huska was a safe pick. Well, no, he wasn't at all. Huska was a non difference maker who helped lead the flames to missing the playoffs and IMO deserved no chance at the head coach position. Backlund who wanted to leave the team earlier this summer was not a safe pick for captain. The whole post was so stupid I honestly can't see how anyone would post it with anyone expecting to take it seriously.

Not trolling, this was a prediction about how I thought the year would play out and why I think they should make some moves. Spit balling a little with the trade ideas, but watching the Flames spin their tires for another decade is getting frustrating! Why the personal attacks man? I've been a Flames fan for years and I've always enjoyed seeing the discourse and different opinions on CP, so I decided to make an account and engage. I'm not here to deal with your crap! Disagree if you want, call me out for knee jerk reactions if you want. I'm certainly not going to agree with everything you post on here either, but you won't catch me disrespecting you for it! Return the favor bud, keep it civil!

[Aarongavey]

Originally Posted by Textcritic

Apparently, the Flames are the only team in the West whose core is one year older, and what reason is there to expect that any of Vegas, Colorado, Edmonton, Minnesota and Seattle "should be better"?

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Better than the Flames.

[Strange Brew]

Originally Posted by browna

There is very little chance that the Flames are out of it by the March 1st trade deadline.

There is 23 Flames games to be played after that date.

I agree. It is possible but not likely that the season plays out in such a way that it makes the UFA decisions easier. And really, if you are prepared to make long term commitments to Lindholm and Hanifin, players you have had for multiple seasons, should you really let a partial season be the determining factor in your decision making?

[cannon7]

If Huska plays Markstrom because "Welp, we're paying him $6M, so gotta play him." Then the season is likely lost.

But if Huska pivots early when/if Markstrom underperforms then the Flames have a shot.

[Hackey]

Originally Posted by Aarongavey

Said barely miss the playoffs. Core of the team is one year older, they have the talent to stay in games but Edmonton, Vegas, LA, Colorado, Dallas, wild, kraken should be better. Maybe they squeak in in 8th.

I agree, those 7 teams would be the favorites to make playoffs. I think Calgary, Seattle, St Louis, Winnipeg battle for the wild cards.

[dino7c]

Originally Posted by Aarongavey

Better than the Flames.

$100 says all those teams aren't better than the Flames


Free money if you actually believe it

[activeStick]

Originally Posted by GioforPM

Yup. Gaudreau was a "complimentary player" and not a guy who could drive a team.

And Chucky wasn't a leader and distracted his teammates from playing hockey with his shenanigans.

[BagoPucks]

Voted to make the playoffs but that is 100% Homer boosted opinion. I think realistically they will fight for a spot and might miss.

[Enoch Root]

The only one of those teams actually better than the Flames is Colorado. Maybe Dallas, if they have as good of a year as last year. And maybe Vegas, if they're healthy. After that, there is very little differen e between the teams, and any could find themselves outside the playoffs, if things don't go well.

[Textcritic]

Originally Posted by Enoch Root

The only one of those teams actually better than the Flames is Colorado. Maybe Dallas, if they have as good of a year as last year. And maybe Vegas, if they're healthy. After that, there is very little differen e between the teams, and any could find themselves outside the playoffs, if things don't go well.

I think VGK will struggle this season. This is often the case for teams—especially older teams—coming off of a long playoff run or a championship. It is why it is so difficult to repeat in this League.

[dino7c]

Originally Posted by Textcritic

I think VGK will struggle this season. This is often the case for teams—especially older teams—coming off of a long playoff run or a championship. It is why it is so difficult to repeat in this League.

They also can't ice their playoff team in the regular season because it was over the cap

[EVERLAST]

Who knows. Maybe we actually catch lightning in a bucket as Rhett would say. We stay relatively healthy.

Prospects contribute more . Our goalies have to have to have to be strong however. This new defensive system and giving more green lights to join the rush and play more aggressively sounds great and all but we still have to score.
Read that again.

We struggle to score and I know why. We shoot from the perimeter for the most part. We play nice hockey. We don't crash and bang and screen thr goalie and anger the opposing D by forechecking hard and backbreaking responsibly.

In watching thr top teams in this league they do all that , have lethal power plays and somehow manage to not take an s ton of penalties. I swear we don't get lucky bounces either like they do.

Maybe this changes when we're playing out of a new barn but I've watched this team for so so so long wash rinse repeat and Beat horses to death and reincarnate that dead horse to beat it again...ya know.

Planning for another year of let's shoot allot and maybe a few go in makes me feel sick....I'm used to it . It's comfortable and the only pain I know watching this team crap itself yearly so I guess there's that???

Oh to be a Flames fan.

[butterfly]

Originally Posted by EVERLAST

We don't crash and bang and screen thr goalie and anger the opposing D by forechecking hard and backbreaking responsibly.

I think that's what Seattle claimed Studenic did to Pelletier.

[Chonger]

Said 0-10 before pre-season started. Feel the same after it.

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[Vedder]

I understand the optimism that Sutter’s departure might result in bounce back seasons for key players. However, dude was still a very good coach and I think the defense and 5 on 5 play could take a big step back without him.

I predict improved seasons for Huberdeau and the goaltending, with the same net result of a narrow miss. I hope it’s more definitive either way since the narrow miss scenario could be a disaster from an asset management perspective.

[Classic_Sniper]

Pretty much expecting the Flames to be a bubble playoff team similar to last season. The Pacific should be weak division once again so the team has a puncher’s chance, but trading away your top goal scorer, top point getter and biggest one shot threat doesn’t make the team better.

The team is basically bringing back the same team going into this season and just hoping and praying that a couple guys improve over last season. Based on what I saw in the preseason, I don’t see much different results from last year, powerplay still doesn’t have much bite, Lindholm and Huberdeau duo still struggling to find chemistry and Markstrom continues to be a question mark.

I don’t know, maybe the team will surprise me, but probably a good idea to keep expectations low which tends to lead to unexpected success based on past history.

[TheIronMaiden]

I was going to wait until game 10 to bump this thread, but #### it, after wasting every ones time and money last night the Flames deserve deserved as much heat as we can give them.