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Old 10-31-2018, 03:18 PM   #1
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Flames finish October with a 7-5-1 record. It seems like the Flames are always slow starters (maybe it just seems that way since Iginla was always such a slow starter?), so all in all I'm pretty happy with those results. It's certainly been a roller coaster so far.

Game 1 - Oh no Flames lose to bottom-feeder Canucks, what a disaster!
Games 2 - 6 - Flames look awesome, love the new players and coaches, Stanley Cup contender!
Games 7 - 10 - Sky is falling, Smith sucks, we have no heart or passion!
Games 11 - 13 - Yay we are good again, love this team!

I'm curious as to what others think...are you satisfied with the first month? Expected better? Worse? For comparison, here are the past few years of Octobers:

2017-18: 6-6-0. Went on to get 84 points and miss the playoffs.
2016-17: 4-5-1. Went on to get 94 points and make the playoffs, getting swept by Anaheim in the 1st round.
2015-16: 3-8-1. Went on to get 77 points and miss the playoffs.
2014-15: 6-4-2. Went on to get 97 points and make the playoffs, losing to Anaheim in the 2nd round.
2013-14: 5-5-2. Went on to get 77 points and miss the playoffs.

A few of the major storylines with this team in October:

- Rittich has played incredible, Smith has struggled (inconsistent at best)
- Rookie blueliners not looking out of place
- Lindholm racking up points on the first line
- Bennett having a bounce back year although still not getting bounces
- Already had a few exciting comebacks and lots of scoring in the 3rd period has made for some good entertainment
- Other newcomers (Ryan, Neal, Czarnik, Dube, Hanifin) not producing offensively yet
- Power play is still bad
- Flames as a whole giving up too many high danger scoring chances
- Brodano back together with mixed results. Giordano having a great start but Brodie has been either really good or really bad

Love to hear everyone's thoughts on the the good the bad and the ugly with this young season so far.

Edit: Also worth noting is that of the Flames first 13 games, 5 have been at home and 8 have been on the road. Also 10 have been against teams currently positioned in a playoff spot and 3 have been against non-playoff positioned teams.

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Old 10-31-2018, 03:24 PM   #2
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Nice write up. October was about what I expected; Not sure what 'Peters hockey' is and like always one hole gets plugged (goal scorer RW?) another opens (goaltending?). The new kids are pretty good.

I guess we'll have to wait until Dec 1 to know what we've got this year.
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Old 10-31-2018, 03:35 PM   #3
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An entertaining opening month on the whole with a lot of interesting, hopeful, frustrating story lines. I'm engaged, which is more than I can say about most of last year. Go Flames!
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Old 10-31-2018, 03:43 PM   #4
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I think it was a pretty solid, and pretty entertaining month. With one bad week.

I am optimistic.
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Old 10-31-2018, 06:27 PM   #5
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This team could do some damage for sure . But that’s just it. Team. I’ve seen excellent games and games with 1/3 of the team play hard and the others do a disappearing act.

Peters is a damn good coach. His supporting cast is good as well. I’d still like to see another goalie here if Rittich can’t take the starters job from smith.

I like Smith but don’t feel 100% comfortable with him. I liked seeing Rittich play the puck aggressively last night as it adds an element to his game which doesn’t hurt.

If we stay injury free this team is a second round playoff team I MO .

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Old 10-31-2018, 06:46 PM   #6
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The consistency, or lack of, is the worst. Some nights we're able to keep up or outplay very good teams (Nashville, Boston, Washington) but then we'll go on a 2 or 3 game stretch where we play like complete horse####.

I think going forward, regardless if we win or lose games, if we play like how we did against Washington, Toronto and Buffalo I think we'll be ok (minus the PP).
With that said, I'm liking what Peter's has brought so far. When we're playing well, we're steady, patient and confident. Traits I don't think we would have associated with our team under Gulutzen. Hope we keep it up.
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Old 10-31-2018, 11:46 PM   #7
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...I'm liking what Peter's has brought so far...
This is going to drive me crazy this year...

The man's name is Bill Peters, not Bill Peter.

In the above sentence not only is the punctuation on his name wrong, there is not any need for it in the first place... "I'm liking what Peters has brought so far..."

If you are discussing an attribute or quality of Bill Peters, which would require the use of the apostrophe, you may then choose one of two forms:

"So far, Bill Peters' powerplay has been lousy."

or,

"So far, Bill Peters's powerplay has been lousy."

NOT,

"So far, Bill Peter's powerplay has been lousy."

It's Bill Peters. Not Bill Peter, and never Bill Peter's.

That is all.
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An apostrophe about apostrophes? Incredible.
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One of the best things about October is that Rittich has looked great.
What if we have something here?
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This is going to drive me crazy this year...

The man's name is Bill Peters, not Bill Peter.

In the above sentence not only is the punctuation on his name wrong, there is not any need for it in the first place... "I'm liking what Peters has brought so far..."

If you are discussing an attribute or quality of Bill Peters, which would require the use of the apostrophe, you may then choose one of two forms:

"So far, Bill Peters' powerplay has been lousy."

or,

"So far, Bill Peters's powerplay has been lousy."

NOT,

"So far, Bill Peter's powerplay has been lousy."

It's Bill Peters. Not Bill Peter, and never Bill Peter's.

That is all.
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Bill Peters Peters Bill Peters'



Bill Peters.


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This is going to drive me crazy this year...

The man's name is Bill Peters, not Bill Peter.

In the above sentence not only is the punctuation on his name wrong, there is not any need for it in the first place... "I'm liking what Peters has brought so far..."

If you are discussing an attribute or quality of Bill Peters, which would require the use of the apostrophe, you may then choose one of two forms:

"So far, Bill Peters' powerplay has been lousy."

or,

"So far, Bill Peters's powerplay has been lousy."

NOT,

"So far, Bill Peter's powerplay has been lousy."

It's Bill Peters. Not Bill Peter, and never Bill Peter's.

That is all.
Where do you sit on "Bill's Peter"?
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What’s the possessive form of “Ol’ Billy P?”
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One thing I've noticed about this Flames team sans the Pens Game is when they get scored on, you can see how Peters gets the boys regrouped and usually follows it up with a pretty strong shift.

We've had more exciting games in October then probably the last 2 seasons combined.
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Honestly I love this thread and could go for a similar month-in-summary thread here all season. It's a big time saver.
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Old 11-01-2018, 08:45 AM   #17
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I think the thing that still concerns me is the special teams.

The Powerplay and Penalty kill have to be at least League Average and we're below that in both categories.

Special teams have to pick it up.
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I think the thing that still concerns me is the special teams.



The Powerplay and Penalty kill have to be at least League Average and we're below that in both categories.



Special teams have to pick it up.
It is really puzzling that they are struggling on special teams with all the changes made over the summer. This leads me to think that not all the problems last year were systemic.


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The nice thing is that a decent October at least paves the road for playoff hockey. A slightly improved November will do wonders for the teams psyche the rest of the way.
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Old 11-01-2018, 02:54 PM   #20
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To me October is a huge success for a few reasons ...

one they're over .500 ... take it
two they really haven't had a home stand
three their schedule has really limited their practice time (effected special teams)
four Haynes article a few years ago about teams needing 15-17 games to adjust to a new coach

Very good sign in my mind.
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