[PGT] Flames beat Stars 4-3 in OT

[TrentCrimmIndependent]

Originally Posted by Hockey_Ninja

Huby with a quiet 3 assist night

4 assists sans league interference.

[SuperMatt18]

I will say...I think the PP has looked so much better with Hanifin and Sharangovich on it.

Hanifin is just quicker at making decision and at walking the line than Andersson was. Andersson has the more dangerous shot but Hanifin makes plays that lead to a better PP IMO

[TrentCrimmIndependent]

Have to admit Hanifin is selling me on the 7.5 AAV contract.. he's been instrumental to their comebacks this season and looks like he can work a PP pretty effectively.

[Jay Random]

Originally Posted by SuperMatt18

He's the one guy I'd re-sign

This team doesn't have a lot of money tied up in dmen, and they don't really have any high end prospects. He's still young enough thaf he's going to be effective for most of the contract too.

No issues at all if they were to sign him.

Agreed. If he's willing to sign, by all means sign him.

If not, I'm partial to the idea of a sign-and-trade that an insider suggested recently.

[TrentCrimmIndependent]

Would Tanev take a shorter term extension here, given the hard miles on his body and his age? I wonder.

I don't have any kind of gauge on his feelings on the team and city (because he handles that stuff like a pro). Is he a player that you could rent to a contender and then re-sign in the offseason? I wouldn't be opposed to that.

[Inferno]

https://twitter.com/user/status/1730447425700348194

[Goriders]

Originally Posted by TrentCrimmIndependent

Have to admit Hanifin is selling me on the 7.5 AAV contract.. he's been instrumental to their comebacks this season and looks like he can work a PP pretty effectively.

Maybe Big Z was the sacrifice to try and get hanifin and tanev extended

[Goriders]

Originally Posted by TrentCrimmIndependent

Would Tanev take a shorter term extension here, given the hard miles on his body and his age? I wonder.

I don't have any kind of gauge on his feelings towards on team and city (because he handles that stuff like a pro). Is he a player that you could rent to a contender and then re-sign in the offseason? I wouldn't be opposed to that.

It’s looking more and more like we are turning into a contender

[TrentCrimmIndependent]

Lol not sure if serious ^

They've upgraded from basement fodder to bubble team at the very least.

[868904]

Hanifin looked like a number 1 defenseman tonight: I’m still not sure if I want to commit to that contract.

I feel like Huberdeau will produce more as the years go by and as he gets use to his teammates and vice versa. He is a unique player, not the type that can just step into any team and produce, he really needs to familiarize with his teammates.

I think Gilbert had a great game. He looks like he has more skill than I thought. Plus he is legitimately tough. I was surprised at his fight card and record. I really don’t think the Flames lost much toughness in Zadorov. I think Gilbert would beat Zadorov in a fight.

[Goriders]

Originally Posted by Fourteen FTW

So did Vegas. Hehe

And the canucks

[Goriders]

Originally Posted by PeteMoss

Every time we play the stars I ask myself the same question... How did Jason Robertson get 109 points last year? He's fine but baffling to me he gets so many points.

Same way huberdeau did 2 years ago? Or johnny hockey

[camm13]

Originally Posted by dino7c

Win Saturday and they are 6 back of the "amazing contender" Canucks who have played the Sharks 3 times

And the oil 3 times

[KootenayFlamesFan]

Love Tanev. Such a warrior. He blocks shots with his face. But I don't think you can extend him. Maybe for one year, but even then that's pushing it with all those miles on that body. He's playing well, he's healthy as he can be right now, you have to trade him this year. Teams with deep playoff run aspirations would love him on their team. Sell high, thank him for everything. Gotta trade him this year.

[WhiteTiger]

Just caught the highlights.

What a mess of a game. WTF was going on with the calls tonight. What happened to the disallowed goal? "Hand pass?" WTF?

A win's a win's a win.

Way to go, Flames!

[MrMike]

Originally Posted by KootenayFlamesFan

Love Tanev. Such a warrior. He blocks shots with his face. But I don't think you can extend him. Maybe for one year, but even then that's pushing it with all those miles on that body. He's playing well, he's healthy as he can be right now, you have to trade him this year. Teams with deep playoff run aspirations would love him on their team. Sell high, thank him for everything. Gotta trade him this year.

Ehh he’ll be a dude who LTIRetires. I’d give him 2 years, possibly 3 if the AAV can get really low.
3.5m, 2.8m, 2m. He just makes everyone he plays with so good and I think he will be fine on the third pair with limited minutes by the end of it. I just think he’s such an important veteran for the young kids and to teach how to be a professional hard worker.

[TrentCrimmIndependent]

If he'll sign for 2-3M per I'd consider signing him until his inevitable LTIRetirement.

But Hanifin comes first. Hands down the best performer of the guys fighting for contracts.

[FlamesAddiction]

Huberdeau has been decent since he scored that goal against Vancouver a couple of weeks ago. I'd say in the last 8 games, he was a critical factor in at least 3 of them, and was pretty much fine in the other games. They all can't bangers, but his overall level of play has been trending up. I hope this is a sign that he turned the corner.

[blankall]

Originally Posted by TrentCrimmIndependent

If he'll sign for 2-3M per I'd consider signing him until his inevitable LTIRetirement.

But Hanifin comes first. Hands down the best performer of the guys fighting for contracts.

It's crazy, because at the beginning of the year I would have said Lindholm was the most important player of the UFAs by a mile, and there was no way the team could be any good without him. With the Kadri and kids line emerging and Hanifin upping his game, it looks like Hanifin is the hardest to replace.

At this point it looks like the Flames could replace Lindholm with a $5 million (as opposed to the $9 million Lindholm wants) second line center, and the team stays just as successful. Finding a Hanifin replacement, not so easy.

[Gaskal]

Around the League Report

Spoiler!

Who is that Player?

Welcome back to "Who Is That Player?" Yes, I'm still mad that Walker Duehr was unceremoniously scratched after the last Flames profile. Nevertheless we look to rebound with an examination of that other famous Flame, Martin Pospíšil.

The 6'2 winger was Impospisil to miss in the last meeting between the two teams as the Calgary attack seemed to revolve around him for some reason, playing 16:42 total and spending significant time on the powerplay.

Breaking into the NHL as a 24 year old rookie, the Slovakian with arguably the most difficult-to-pronounce name in the league was originally drafted in the 2018 4th round by Calgary, 5 picks after Adam Mascherin and 1 pick before Curtis Douglas.

Boasting no scouting reports whatsoever on his Eliteprospect page, Pospíšil was already in North America at the time of his drafting by way of playing in the USHL. Other than a brief stint back in Slovakia during COVID he's toiled in the AHL since 2019.

The Flames board is another one that fails to produce a summer prospect ranking so can't help you there. The closest Stars comp I can think of would be if Fredrik Karlström was playing in the NHL Top 9.

This has been, "Who Is That Player?"

Preemptive Window Shopping

It would be really nice for the Stars to crush Calgary tonight. For revenge, to start a winning streak. But also because the Flames are 5-2-1 in their last 8 games and have crawled back into the playoff picture, and I need them to start losing again so they decide to be sellers at the deadline since they have two of the best potential defensemen trade targets the Stars could get (and one that is a huge trap).

Oh hey, the Flames traded Zadorov to the Canucks. So now we don't have to worry about Nill trading for Zadorov and we don't have to worry about Zadorov throwing dirty hits on any of our players tonight. Win win.

At least we don't have to deal with Zadorov tonight

I'd like to order one Tanev please.

Yeah, Calgary can just send him over to the Stars team plane after the game, that would be great.

Grudge Match

It seems to me that this roster doesn’t have a short memory for embarrassing losses or cheap shots. I expect a hungry-for-revenge Stars team tonight.

I’m glad Sevvy called out Robo during the jets game. A lot of fans are blaming our dmen, but forwards not tracking back is leading to a lot of chances. Several of the goals against in the Calgary game were because of this. Our forwards can’t just shrug their shoulders and let Otter handle it. They have to be better at picking up the open man.

C’mon, Road Warriors…get a little bit of sweet revenge in their barn tonight. I know everyone of them, from Otter on out, wants a redo from last Friday. Get the 2 pts, boys…Go Stars!!

Time for a redemption game if there ever was one.

Nothing bad has ever happened when we play Calgary. Right ?

༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ STARS TAKE MY ENERGY!!! ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ
༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ STARS TAKE MY ENERGY!!! ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ
༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ STARS TAKE MY ENERGY!!! ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ

Let’s get some revenge for Friday night eh?
Not sure why we always struggle against Calgary. They’re mediocre and we aren’t

Tanev’s Karma Goal

Suter showing why he has to play on the left side. bum

One more before Wedgewood locks it down

And what a terrible pass from Harley.

FOR f***S SAKE

GET SUTER OFF THIS TEAM ALREADY

Suter own goal, better bench Lundkvist

Time to get one back

Tanev showing why he should be a Dallas Star

Hes auditioning

Damnit, Suter

Suter now has 2 goals (own) on the season

I really hope goals off our Dmen doesn't become a trend like it did in the 21-22 season. Just ####ty luck for Suter.

I think every shot the stars have taken this period has been blocked pretty much

All by Tanev

Lucky bounce. It happens. Get it back, boys.

I know Suter is fine overall but I just want to see more Harley and Nils minutes. Someone has to step up to take some minutes from Miro or he’ll die by playoffs

Hanifin Crashes the Net

Might be a rough one tonight...

Let’s not give them grade a chance after grade a chance

I know everyone loves Robertson, and I know he does some really good things. But I swear sometimes I think he's just trying to swat the puck away - somewhere, anywhere - like it's a hot potato to get rid of.

Would love it if Marchment didn’t take his sweet time getting back to defend

Okay why is literally every random ass bounce going right to a Flames stick, can we get a little of the puck luck

They don't fear our checking line. And they don't respect our defense. So they're playing on their blue line and constantly attacking.
If other teams are watching, we're in trouble. We don't have an answer for this strategy.

We do not want to hit them in our zone. Just let them skate around like it is a pond hockey game. Wtf is our forwards problems with hitting in our zone. You cannot just let them skate around unharrassed free and clear with no knocking them off the puck.

A Finesse-Plus Shot from Weegar to tie it!

Always some weak ass shot from distance that goes in against the Flames I feel like

The prophecy has been fulfilled, W3dg3wood has arrived

Well ####.

God dammit

Getting outshot bad, crazy call. Flames are gonna come out hard. Hope they can finally hold a lead. Geez

Just outplayed tonight. Flames deserve this one, let's see if we can somehow respond

You don’t get your shots doubled and coast to victory often, come on boys wake up!

Yeah, I love Wedgie but I really would've liked to have seen Otter get this start.

ha ha...Wedgie isn't the problem...has stopped 31 of 34 shots.

Just a scheduled start for Wedgie I guess? Assuming nothing is wrong with Otter, I would've really, really liked to have seen #39 between the pipes tonight. Not just coming off the shutout, but you know he would've been hungry for another shot at Calgary after the way the last game went.

lol we have some serious glaring problems.

We look like a Rick Bowness coached team tonight

And it just cost us

Hope the flames don’t make the playoffs

I don’t understand why Calgary is our kryptonite

Lmfaooo what is this game

Stars need to block more shots. The sog tonight was unacceptable.

i knew better than to watch a dallas calgary game. but ive been so frustrated by this month that i havent watched dallas play the last 5 or so games. i did it to myself honestly.

I want Nils to succeed so bad but my god we just completely tanked his confidence or something. He looked absolutely fine literally 10 days ago.

I'm basically rooting for the Flames at this point to punish the coaching staff for their idiotic D pairings

Overtime Moments Kadri

Yup, saw that OT loss a mile away. Our OT and defense issues continue. At least we get a point? Good night everybody.

Fully deserved OTL

I love just playing the final few minutes with our thumbs up our asses while the other team goes Uber Jason on us. JFC

Have we not learned that icing it in a tie game under 2mins isn’t what we want to do

Man the Flames just have our number. Did he hit it out of the glove?

Choke job with the lead once again

That should be interference

Yeah I didn’t think so. The Stars did a horrible job of selling that by leaving the bench.

####ing choked

Put it in reverse Terry

Jim Nill doubling down on that subpar defensive squad this season is absurd. He has backed himself into a corner and will have to overpay to get out of this mess. Fine. Just do something. It's been like this for long enough.

I feel like everyone's been holding Jake to the standard of that playoff series against Calgary, and I knew for a fact that play like that couldn't come consistent for any goaltender throughout and entire season. I did feel like with us resting him more this season and Wedgewall getting some more games he might be more consistent, but maybe i'm overdoing it and not allowing him some error room as a professional hockey goaltender in the worlds toughest league. I guess the next couple months will let us know.

Well-deserved win by the Flames...never gave up and their speed and passing took over the game for the most part. Hey, the season is a marathon.

Can we fire DeBoer already? He's destroying this team. His passionless style of hockey where nobody throws a body check is a template on how to build a losing team. He continually plays Suter who not only misses assignments left and right but drags Miro down with him. Robo and Hintz, despite putting up points, continue to struggle and instead of trying to switch the lines up a little he rolls out the same thing time and time again. They could win every game for the rest of the regular season. Playing DeBoer hockey won't win in the playoffs EVER! There's a reason he's a career loser

gotta be honest, him and robo more often than not look like they spent the offseason at the lake pounding beers

I haven't said this in a long time, but our coach lost us that game. He chose to go full turtle in the 3rd, he chose to sit Nils and double shifted 2 most of the 3rd. After Mush scored we were outshot like 20-1 and out-processed for the final 10 minutes and overtime.


It was 1000% the same #### we saw 2 years ago. 1000% the coach telling the team to play that way.


I don't like it one bit. PDBowness has to stop...he has to!!!

Well deserved win by Calgary.

You can’t win by playing Bowness hockey and produce 16 shots, including OT.

f***in pathetic showing again tonight.

Everyone just playing lazy, bored, disinterested hockey

After adding OT, the Stars went the final 9:58 without a shot on goal.

Team Overtime!

CGy ties it up at 3 with 5 to go

Keep putting up some wins and stay mediocre.

The Flames back to their winning just about every OT selves after a 1 year hiatus.

Now they score again lol

DALL such frauds. 2 collapses to CGY this year

That blockhead Weegar

Christ Dallas is so unimpressive.

Anyone who thinks the Stars are a Cup contender is an idiot.

Calgary is Borat's neighbor. Edmonton gets a win, Calgary must get a win. Edmonton gets a lose, Calgary must get a lose. Edmonton has a McDavid. Calgary cannot afford.

Dallas have two modes:

Good

Complete crap.

When they choose the latter I just turn it off.