Practice Notes - February 3, 2020

[Toonage]

https://twitter.com/user/status/1224402895086505986

Lucic still in the lineup.

Hanifin & Stone huh? Well, could it be worse?

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Mangiapane-Lindholm-Tkachuk
Gaudreau-Monahan-Robinson
Lucic-Ryan-Dube
Jankowski-Backlund-Bennett
Rinaldo-Rieder

Giordano-Andersson
Brodie-Hamonic
Hanifin-Stone
Kylington

[Erick Estrada]

Why wouldn't Lucic be in the lineup? The injury talk is purely speculative as people try to rationalize why he was a no-show in the BOA.

[ComixZone]

Brodie and Hamonic back together?

Lucic still playing?

[DeluxeMoustache]

Originally Posted by Erick Estrada

Why wouldn't Lucic be in the lineup? The injury talk is purely speculative as people try to rationalize why he was a no-show in the BOA.

Coach could always send a message around accountability

[Toonage]

Full disclosure - I'm irrationally angry at Lucic right now.

[dino7c]

Originally Posted by ComixZone

Brodie and Hamonic back together?

Lucic still playing?

Well at least they changed up the d pairings

[Toonage]

As for goalies I assume Rittich gets the nod tomorrow over Rocky Talboa.

[dino7c]

I can't tell if they are saying Looo or Booo

[Rando]

Originally Posted by Toonage

Full disclosure - I'm irrationally angry at Lucic right now.

It's not irrational. The guy completely no-showed two of the most physical and important Battle of Alberta games in a very long time.

If Lucic doesn't even make a cameo in those type of games he's truly of no use to the team. He's owed 18 million dollars for the next three years so I know it won't happen but ideally he'd retire. If he's not done as a player he soon will be.

[Cleveland Steam Whistle]

Stone coming back in for either Hanifin or Kylington makes sense given the #### show those two were the past two games. I guess we really only have one option to replace them with right now, so I get how Kylington becomes the one who sits.

I agree a benching of Lucic would make sense........but not surprised to see it not happening. That would be a very public shaming of him that likely isn't going to go over very well with a player we are going to have to have around (like it or not) for a little bit. It's probably the best to try and deal with that away from the public eye versus pilling on to it if you are Ward and the Flames.

[FlamesFanTrev]

Originally Posted by Toonage

https://twitter.com/user/status/1224402895086505986

Lucic still in the lineup.

Hanifin & Stone huh? Well, could it be worse?

For the browser impaired:

Mangiapane-Lindholm-Tkachuk
Gaudreau-Monahan-Robinson
Lucic-Ryan-Dube
Jankowski-Backlund-Bennett
Rinaldo-Rieder

Giordano-Andersson
Brodie-Hamonic
Hanifin-Stone
Kylington

Any reports of any players looking ashamed or embarrassed? Or are we just business as usual today?

[Johnhitbox]

Was in Dube in the lineup on Saturday?


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[Insufficient Funds]

Originally Posted by FlamesFanTrev

Any reports of any players looking ashamed or embarrassed? Or are we just business as usual today?

What good is that going to do now? They need to focus on being much better against the Sharks tomorrow night. Every single one of them.

[DeluxeMoustache]

Originally Posted by Rando

It's not irrational. The guy completely no-showed two of the most physical and important Battle of Alberta games in a very long time.

If Lucic doesn't even make a cameo in those type of games he's truly of no use to the team. He's owed 18 million dollars for the next three years so I know it won't happen but ideally he'd retire. If he's not done as a player he soon will be.

Agreed. Even if is buddies with all of the Oilers he played with, he wasn’t shy to get in Mike Smith’s kitchen last year.

It would have been so easy for him to save face and not even have to bother his buddies. Just bother Smith.

But no. *grumble*

[savardandjokinen]

Brodie and Hamonic was such a bad pairing and Hanifin and Stone is just not steady

[GioforPM]

Originally Posted by Johnhitbox

Was in Dube in the lineup on Saturday?


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Yes.

[Johnhitbox]

Originally Posted by GioforPM

Yes.

He’s just kinda off the radar lately.


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[FlamesFanTrev]

Originally Posted by Insufficient Funds

What good is that going to do now? They need to focus on being much better against the Sharks tomorrow night. Every single one of them.

Well if its just business as usual, that means to me that the team has no heart, and they have lost the plot on what it takes to win in the NHL. They should be angry and embarrassed, and they should use that to drive them. Losing sucks. but losing like that should stick with you, for more then just a day for sure.

[GioforPM]

Originally Posted by savardandjokinen

Brodie and Hamonic was such a bad pairing and Hanifin and Stone is just not steady

If he's trying to help Hamonic, he should try him with Gio, who is much more predictable as a player (which is what I think Hamonic needs), though Brodie has simplified his game a lot since the Hamonic experiment.

With Brodie back to playing good D, perhaps Hanifin Brodie would work. Though that leaves Andersson Stone which doesn't work that well (two RHS).

[bubbsy]

well, it ain't pretty, but at least they seem to acknowledging that the Defence looks terrible, and needs to be mixed up a bit.