I like this clip from an Isles/Penguins game in the 2013 playoffs. Cant wait to see Hamonic in the Flames silks - he is one of the keys to 100 pts.
Malkin is doing this wimpy face-rub with his glove on Hamonic - then Hamonic says "enough of this" and throws a punch. before the Penguins all pile on him.
Btw, Iginla was the instigator of it all.
Oh dear, those comments. Like a moth to the flame, SN has somehow managed to convince the dumbest people on the internet to congregate in one place.
It wasn't just what was being said, but how it was said. It's like there's 100 people with the English language skills of Cletus from the Simpsons all posting on the same comments section.
Wait a minute. Concentration of stupid people in one place, english skills of Cletus, posting inane comments...I'm describing Edmonton aren't I?
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Back during the Young Guns years, you could bring a book or some homework to the Saddledome and not be bothered.
The Library Era suuuuucked.
I vaguely recall getting Flames tickets in a box of Coca-Cola for the upper levels and then being asked to sit in the lower bowl so it looked better on TV, but I was just a kid at the time so I might be mis-remembering.
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I vaguely recall getting Flames tickets in a box of Coca-Cola for the upper levels and then being asked to sit in the lower bowl so it looked better on TV, but I was just a kid at the time so I might be mis-remembering.
I vaguely remember being moved down from the 2nd level as well with my old man a couple times.
He also had an impossible time giving clients tickets back in the day for the Flames, so we ended up going to a few games hah.
I remember back in those days it was kind of embarrassing to tell kids in school that you were a Flames fan. You definitely had to downplay it a bit.
Probably just mostly nostalgia at play, but I have some fond memories of that era though. Tickets were dirt cheap, nobody went to the games to be seen (unlike post 2004), and there was a lovable loser quality to that team and some if its characters...Tabaracci, Freddie Brathwaite, Joel Bouchard, Brian Sutter etc. Those teams sucked hard, but you could never call them lazy. I enjoyed those years much more than the few years prior to the rebuild, where they were just a lazy team hopelessly lost in the weeds.
Sandy McCarthy could wake you up while we had him. After he left "team toughness" was the phrase of the day. That didn't work well either.
Team toughness was solid in '04. Chris Simon, Oliwa, Iginla, Regehr, Clark, Warrener, etc. We were not to be messed with. We'll never see team toughness like that again because the game has changed.
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Team toughness was solid in '04. Chris Simon, Oliwa, Iginla, Regehr, Clark, Warrener, etc. We were not to be messed with. We'll never see team toughness like that again because the game has changed.
Not sure if that's completely accurate when you still have teams like Anaheim around today. Teams may not fight as much (and maybe thats what you meant), but I think in many ways Anaheim today is harder to play against than that Flames lineup.
Team toughness was solid in '04. Chris Simon, Oliwa, Iginla, Regehr, Clark, Warrener, etc. We were not to be messed with. We'll never see team toughness like that again because the game has changed.
Well that was 8 years later in the mean time Todd Simpson was our toughest guy.
Not sure if that's completely accurate when you still have teams like Anaheim around today. Teams may not fight as much (and maybe thats what you meant), but I think in many ways Anaheim today is harder to play against than that Flames lineup.
Maybe not fight per se, though that was never far away, but this scrap was predicated on Sergei Zholtok hot dogging an empty netter. You don’t do that to the 2004 Flames under Darryl Sutter, at home. That willingness to not let someone push you around, or there would be immediate consequences with a number of willing combatants, gave the skilled guys enough extra space and time needed, never mind the confidence of a unified team.
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I remember back in those days it was kind of embarrassing to tell kids in school that you were a Flames fan. You definitely had to downplay it a bit.
Probably just mostly nostalgia at play, but I have some fond memories of that era though. Tickets were dirt cheap, nobody went to the games to be seen (unlike post 2004), and there was a lovable loser quality to that team and some if its characters...Tabaracci, Freddie Brathwaite, Joel Bouchard, Brian Sutter etc. Those teams sucked hard, but you could never call them lazy. I enjoyed those years much more than the few years prior to the rebuild, where they were just a lazy team hopelessly lost in the weeds.
I was slowly becoming a partial Leaf fan back then. The huge playoff battles between the Leafs/Sens/Habs with Bob Cole calling all the games was pretty awesome.
Shudder just thinking of the Dark Times and what further damage it could have done to me.
Maybe not fight per se, though that was never far away, but this scrap was predicated on Sergei Zholtok hot dogging an empty netter. You don’t do that to the 2004 Flames under Darryl Sutter, at home. That willingness to not let someone push you around, or there would be immediate consequences with a number of willing combatants, gave the skilled guys enough extra space and time needed, never mind the confidence of a unified team.
God I loved it when our team had balls. Might lose the game, but it was going to be close and the other team wa going to f-ing pay for it. Sutter was the real captain of that squad and it showed.
Different game now for sure.
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God I loved it when our team had balls. Might lose the game, but it was going to be close and the other team wa going to f-ing pay for it. Sutter was the real captain of that squad and it showed.
Different game now for sure.
Thanks for the trip down the rabbit hole. Had to then watch the Berube-inspired Ducks brawl and both Canucks - Flames incidents.
Great way to drink an entire pot of coffee and spend a Saturday morning!
God I loved it when our team had balls. Might lose the game, but it was going to be close and the other team wa going to f-ing pay for it. Sutter was the real captain of that squad and it showed.
Different game now for sure.
That was literally the Flames of 2013/14. Does nobody remember how many tough guys we were employing back then?
McGrattan
Westgarth
O'Brien
Bouma
Jackman
Smid
It sorta led to this infamous moment
You guys have some short memories.
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