[GDT] Last Preseason Game: Jets @ Flames: Oct 4 - 7 pm MT (FlamesTV, Fan960)

[the-rasta-masta]

Originally Posted by GreenLantern2814

I realized the other day that 8 preseason games represents nearly 10% of a full NHL season, and I can’t get it out of my head.

We have learned absolutely nothing that we didn’t know four games ago.

Give me 84 regular season games over this all day.

9.756% actually. Fake news.

[Lanny'sDaMan]

Originally Posted by genetic_phreek

Bummer on the last goal. Prior to the face-off, when we iced the puck, that whole sequence started because Rasmus didn't move the puck up quick enough. I'm nitpicking but if there was one thing he does often that I don't like, it's exactly that, holding on to the puck way too long.

Right about the 7 minute left mark I was thinking to myself, that the team looked like they were playing to not make mistakes as opposed to playing to win. The Jets goal was inevitable at that point I felt.

[GreenLantern2814]

Originally Posted by the-rasta-masta

9.756% actually. Fake news.

That’s why I said nearly.

[saillias]

Originally Posted by expatflame

So who comes out when Coleman is in?

Rooney

[mogg]

Then who’s your 4C?

[Burning Beard]

They can lose like that all year. Play hard, stay in games and get a great spot in the draft.

[Junglist]

Originally Posted by mogg

Then who’s your 4C?

A 4th line with Pospisil centering (Klapka and Lomberg) would be fun, but id like him playing higher up in the lineup.

[browna]

Originally Posted by TheScorpion

I don't think Beesley has any idea how to pronounce Miromanov

Any player around the league that has more than 2 syallabes in his last name gives Beesley fits, along with fumbling and stumbling over other basic announcements, and has for years.

[Junglist]

Originally Posted by browna

Any player around the league that has more than 2 syallabes in his last name gives Beesley fits, along with fumbling and stumbling over other basic announcements, and has for years.

I got a bit of a hard time from him and the other instructor/teacher trying to get into the Radio program at SAIT approx 14 years ago, I accidently said Calgary Hitman, instead of Hitmen, nothing awful, but it stuck with me, haha. I actually got accepted to the course, but decided to go else where. Wonder where id be if I took that course at SAIT.

[Paulie Walnuts]

Originally Posted by Junglist

I got a bit of a hard time from him and the other instructor/teacher trying to get into the Radio program at SAIT approx 14 years ago, I accidently said Calgary Hitman, instead of Hitmen, nothing awful, but it stuck with me, haha. I actually got accepted to the course, but decided to go else where. Wonder where id be if I took that course at SAIT.

Anytime I see Hitmen or Hitman I get flashbacks to Michael Buffer calling Bret Hart, Bret the Hitman Clarke.

[butterfly]

Originally Posted by browna

Any player around the league that has more than 2 syallabes in his last name gives Beesley fits, along with fumbling and stumbling over other basic announcements, and has for years.

Did great with Iginla and Gelinas.

[Delthefunky]

Huh, didn't realize Huska played with Iginla in Kamloops for a few years, that's cool.

[Goriders]

Originally Posted by AC

Bahl ends up in the corner, yikes.

He was heading to the corner to get an expected pass from Andersson off Backlund’s face off win.

Little did he know Andersson was going to pass it to Kyle O’Conner and Zary wasn’t going to bother covering him

[DeluxeMoustache]

Originally Posted by Goriders

He was heading to the corner to get an expected pass from Andersson off Backlund’s face off win.

Little did he know Andersson was going to pass it to Kyle O’Conner and Zary wasn’t going to bother covering him

Yeah it looked like a ‘wires crossed’ situation

[Enoch Root]

Originally Posted by Junglist

A 4th line with Pospisil centering (Klapka and Lomberg) would be fun, but id like him playing higher up in the lineup.

I don't think it will be a big deal this season - Huska has said they intend to roll 4 lines. And the way the lineup is built, they don't have a top line.

The other thing is - guys are going to be traded at some point, so playing C on the 4th line sets him up to move up the lineup as the year unfolds.

This team is the furthest thing from a Line 1, Line 2, Line 3, Line 4 situation right now.

[Goriders]

I only watched the 3rd period. But my impressions of the final roster.

1. they don’t look uncompetitive
2. powerplay still looks brutal. All centers around pounding shots from the point into the pile. Hopefully that gets better with more practice time.
3. Defensive zone coverage is the biggest problem I see. Same as the pp hopefully that gets better with more practice time
4. Hard to tell how the goalies are because of number 3. If the defense doesn’t get better they will both need therapists
5. The other big hole is a lack of finishers in the forward group. Both games against the Jets I thought that was a big differentiator. The Jets big guns finish their opportunities. Ours fire it into the goalies chest.

Lots of work to do. But I don’t think the Flames will be as bad as everyone thinks.

[Enoch Root]

I think the goalies have looked great.

Two of the goals last night were a guy all alone in front with the time to make 3 moves. No goalie on the planet is saving those. The other goal was a seeing eye shot through a heavy screen.

I agree that the biggest challenges this year will be defensive zone coverage (for the next several years), and lack of finish.

I expect the Flames will lose a LOT of one-goal games.

[Bonded]

The defense pretty much guarantees the Flames will be bad. Their forward core is nowhere near good enough to outscore their mistakes.

[Meers]

It’s good the team put up a fight, but during a rebuild this is what you get.

[Goriders]

Originally Posted by Enoch Root

I think the goalies have looked great.

Two of the goals last night were a guy all alone in front with the time to make 3 moves. No goalie on the planet is saving those. The other goal was a seeing eye shot through a heavy screen.

I agree that the biggest challenges this year will be defensive zone coverage (for the next several years), and lack of finish.

I expect the Flames will lose a LOT of one-goal games.

That’s what I’m mentally preparing for.