If backs is hurt and Lomberg gets a game who are we calling up? Obviously Czarnik comes in but do we see Lazar return for fourth line centre? That would make most sense to me
When there was about ten seconds left and the game was in the bag I was hoping one of the Flames was going to give Dumba a two-hand he wouldn’t soon forget.
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Lomberg obviously wasn't out there in the last minute before the hit
use your brains guys
They were up by two. Lomberg played a good forechecking game. I wouldn't have minded. Peters had already put pretty much everyone else out with the EN.
You know Lomberg wouldn't have passed when in the clear.
If backs is hurt and Lomberg gets a game who are we calling up? Obviously Czarnik comes in but do we see Lazar return for fourth line centre? That would make most sense to me
Or Dube. He's probably a better centre, although Lazar has been playing really well according to Maclean.
I would juggle it differently to avoid messing with the top line right now.
Johnny and Monny are good enough to carry Neal for a bit. Lindholm is as good as Backs defensively to have line #2 not skip a beat. Normally I'd say don't break whats working but there is no one else who can do the lifting that Backs does. And Beast will still have PP1 time.
I do think the hit was boaderline, I also think the refs calling by the book on lomberg was pretty puzzling considering the events prior to. Also the Kassian on Tkachuk was worse and he didn't get a fighting major. Refs typically go out of their way to not call the instigator in that situation.
Hope Backs is okay. Holy hell is Smith playing better. Great job by the goalie coach working him back into form. Huge 2 points.
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They were up by two. Lomberg played a good forechecking game. I wouldn't have minded. Peters had already put pretty much everyone else out with the EN.
You know Lomberg wouldn't have passed when in the clear.
Guy, Backlund got hit...it was obviously his line on the ice at the time
It seems like the team is way better at receiving Smith passes than last year. Last year he'd mostly be passing to a stationary guy. Now it leads to a play a lot more.
So, when Gio was in the box for the Koivu hit, and Koivu was out in front of him nattering away, Gio shrugged his shoulders and said....? what? Was it "wanna go?" That's what it looked like to me. He didn't look like he was challenging him, just asking him if that would make him feel better. lol
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My mom recently did a DNA test thing .... 36 years of life boys and girls, and I'm just NOW finding out that I'm .5% Finnish! My Finnish brothers and sisters, let's celebrate our independence with a big WILD WIN!
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What does a typical Finland Independence Day entail?
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Watching the president shake hands with hundreds of people on TV
Don’t Fear the Reaper
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This may be the deadest GDT thread in history
So glad to be part of it!
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With ya’…even though I passed out in the middle of the last one. I think I’m gonna make it this time.
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Stalock in net against a Flames team that averages > 4 goals/game at home.
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1 minute in and the flames haven't scored yet
so far so good
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Jesus Christ this game is terrifying.
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Wild know the game started right?
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We really gotta make something happen, this game is slipping away...
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our forwards ...so careless at our blue line
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Pretty sure it should be like 10-0 Flames 8 minutes into the game. Boys better wake up.
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The Flames look like a team that is feeling it. I think it is more that than the Wild playing badly (although they are being outplayed). Lucky to get out of the period 0 - 0.
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Cool, we hung in there for the initial onslaught and actually wound up outshooting them Bring on P2!
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Wow, well that was an active first period for no goals. Holy crap.
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CAL is the better team right now. Hopefully this is one of those games were we play like ****, but win. Sort of like what TOR did to us.
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God this team is below average.
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Eh.. there at least average. Calgary’s real good
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Really Inconclusive Offside
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Well, there it is. What a shot there. one to zero Flames.
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Oy, these guys are running circles around us
1-0 Flames
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Well ####
… Looks off sides
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Gonna lose this challenge. Dumb to do it.
Or maybe not....
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You can’t get much closer than that.
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Doubt they overturn it despite what they are saying.
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That helps, but the Flames are still owning this game so far
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Woohoo!! Well we get sort of lucky once here. Let's make it count.
Saint Stalocktopus
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Let’s hope stalocktopus can stay stalocked down in Calgary tonight!
Boys playing wild tonight
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Good to see the boys really letting the Locktopuss get back into the swing of things
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The Stalock Ness Monster
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StaLoch Net Monster?
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STALOCK IS STARTING TONIGHT?!?! THE FUTURE IS NOW!!!
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I'm not sure I can put this into words or explain it well enough but I had a feeling Stalock would get this game...I get this feeling it could be a 'weird' game. Calgary scores a ton at home. Feels like Stalock can handle a 'weird' game better than Dubnyk could.
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Flames looking like the 80’s Oilers.
Saint keeping things even so far.
Lindholm scores anyway
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Dangit.. what a goal.
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Granlund giveaway led to that
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what a terrible effort from Parise
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Granny a bit sloppy.
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Blah
Cute play on the other end, 2-on-1 back.
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We need L3 or L4 to get a lunchpail goal
This fancy passing stuff by the top lines isn’t working.
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What the hell is Suter doing up there?
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Erickson-Ek is bad. I wish him to be no longer on the team.
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The Flames are fast and good in transition.
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That’s their game. At the risk of sounding hockey clique, the Wild need to get pucks deep and forecheck.
Not so Special Teams
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Ack, Zack
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Jeebus, Dumba
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That might have been our worst power play of the year
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It’s turning into the Leafs game
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Flames PP is fun to watch.
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Looks like the flames PK gave them the momentum
FFS
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Nino and Coyle not making a case for keeping them on the PP.
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Coyle on the PP …
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Cuz’ size/potential.
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It’s by design
If we need a shot off the glass behind the net you send in coyle.
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That’s remindful of Russo’s dig on JEE – "If the net was in the corner he’d have 20 goals".
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Suter kills the PP. Probably a rough year from the injury but he needs to take a back seat. so........ slow...... with...... everything.........
Lindholm slips one five-hole
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Sloppy.
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ugh.
Bad D
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Greenway didn't do the simple thing and get the puck deep.
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Ek is just brutal
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U.G.L.Y. Ek and a D man out front to cover one dude while Stalock was pretty agressive.
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Get your man Dumba
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Forgetting about the late man.
That was a huge problem last year, and it rears it’s ugly head here
The “#### Mark Giordano” Thread
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What could Giordano have said there?
Kap’n looked pisssssed
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"diiiive"
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Cheap shot, Giordano. Need to make them pay.
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I said it before, I'll say it again - Flames and their fanbase are the biggest, babiest bitches in the league.
Booing after literally every penalty called against them, then they all start crying when their entire team tries to hack Dumba then sucker punches and tackles him from behind. This after King Baby Bitch knees Koivu to take him out of the game. Hacking and hooking all night, this is the fanbase that STILL cries about Suter slashing A GORILLION TIMES.
Hope both of those ####ers get the booked tossed at em, but we know that ain't ever gonna happen. Poor Calgary is always the victim. They should be called the Calgary Martyrs.
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Shutout for Smitty
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#### me Dumba. Why is Smith so good goddamn it
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I am just shocked at the play of mike smith He has been vezina looking tonight.
I guess we should start calling that the Mn Wild effect.
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Evidently he's been pretty hot lately Just our luck because he’s been less than iffy for the past couple of years.
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If you had said that the Flame would have only two goals I would have thought this was a definite win. The Flames have been defending well
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OK, I'll take lunchpail or fancy
Just f’ing score a goal.
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Of course the sub-.900 guy gets a 30+ shot shutout against us
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Good for Mike Smith.
I’m pretty sure his GAA was basically cut in half by not giving up a goal.
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If you don’t score any goals
you are going to lose
Not a bad effort IMO, but we didn’t see the twine.
They Keep Doing It!
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Every other team comes back from 3 and 4 goal deficits like nothing.
Be nice if it was possible with this squad.
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Eric Francis just called the Flames a contender.
Cue the mid-season meltdown.
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How does Kylington become Shillington?
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Swedish
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Is it a bad thing if I'm not rooting for the Flames to lose tonight?
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The Wild play alot like the Mclellan-led Oilers. Guys flying the zone, blind passes to the side boards or to Flames players.
Flames announcers stunned Gaudreau came back to back check.
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Halfway through the game, and the Flames have had 3 power plays already.
Sounds about right .
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Guy, Backlund got hit...it was obviously his line on the ice at the time
I guess, but who knows at that point, with Peters, and with Bennett having a less than stellar game. And with line changes. They were rolling pretty quickly. I know I saw Mangiapane and Ryan on together earlier.
