03-24-2024, 07:41 PM
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9 straight saves to close the period for Wolf, including some dangerous chances. That’s good to see.
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03-24-2024, 07:41 PM
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#42
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Taking a while to get to 5000
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For me I find Kelly tries far too hard to be impartial. It's a home broadcast. You don't need to trip over yourself to compliment the opposition. You can mention how talented they are without going out of your way to emphasize it.
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03-24-2024, 07:41 PM
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#43
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Scoring Winger
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Iam a Wolf apologist and I am certainly too lazy to look it up. But how many goalies 22-24 in age become a 1a goalie.
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03-24-2024, 07:43 PM
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#44
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Franchise Player
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Quote:
Originally Posted by All In Good Time
The worst part is, it appears that this is something we will hear quite often over a large part of the next decade
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Only around 52 games a year.
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03-24-2024, 07:43 PM
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#45
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Your Calgary Flames!
Iam a Wolf apologist and I am certainly too lazy to look it up. But how many goalies 22-24 in age become a 1a goalie.
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Lots - goalies frequently don’t become anything noteworthy until 26-28.
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03-24-2024, 07:44 PM
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#46
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Scoring Winger
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Quote:
Originally Posted by GreenLantern2814
Lots - goalies frequently don’t become anything noteworthy until 26-28.
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I believe you mean few.
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03-24-2024, 07:49 PM
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#47
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Franchise Player
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Quote:
Originally Posted by GreenLantern2814
Lots - goalies frequently don’t become anything noteworthy until 26-28.
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Lots?? lol
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03-24-2024, 07:50 PM
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Resident Videologist
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Calgary
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Quote:
Originally Posted by dissentowner
Have you watched a game where we play the Oilers or the HNIC panel? Kelly Hrudey is an Oilers level homer.
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Yes of course I have and I don't think he comes across the way you do.
As others have said I think he tries to be impartial (maybe to a fault) and also doesn't generally like to call players out. He also generally defends goalies, to no surprise.
I just find it funny how often we collectively make fun of the Oilers crew for being total homers, and then complain when Hrudey talks impartially.
As far the Oilers lean in general, I do think there's likely a directive from Sportsnet to talk up Edmonton because of McDavid as if his existence is enough for them to deserve success. I don't think Hrudey is any more guilty of it than the rest of the panel though.
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03-24-2024, 07:53 PM
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Backup Goalie
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Kelly is just a guy that likes hockey and tries to be cheerful about it. I'm not a huge fan of his but he tends to gush about an opposing team because he seems them less. He's not going to say new stuff about the Flames, who he watches 70+ times a year.
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03-24-2024, 07:55 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2014
Location: Springbank
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Quote:
Originally Posted by ComixZone
Guy put up 4 straight years of PPG+ as a 2nd line winger.
He’s an offensive specialist against soft opposition.
115 point season had 38 PPP - 77 even strength points actually surprised me, but I think it speaks to the even strength load that Barkov’s line carried allowing for Huby to gather points from the 2nd line.
Also something interesting - in Florida Huby played 3:41, 4:19, 3:34, 3:25 AVG PPTOI for his 4 PPG+ years. In CGY, 2:52, 2:42.
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At the game and frankly Huberdeau was the most creative player on the team. He had two bad passes, but a half dozen nice ones. One in particular had the crowd going.
He also dug hard and almost got a nice assist from behind the net after being taken down.
But overall the team is back to some bad habits. Kadri is doing too much by himself, the team is dumping way too much (and following with a single forechecker), the kids have kind of disappeared. Calgary has had territorial advantage but there’s been a few really scattered moments in their own end.
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03-24-2024, 07:55 PM
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Scoring Winger
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Quote:
Originally Posted by BigThief
Kelly is just a guy that likes hockey and tries to be cheerful about it. I'm not a huge fan of his but he tends to gush about an opposing team because he seems them less. He's not going to say new stuff about the Flames, who he watches 70+ times a year.
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I met Kelly a few times and he was just such a nice guy. Made me not care who he actually cheers for.
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03-24-2024, 07:57 PM
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Powerplay Quarterback
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Quote:
Originally Posted by BigThief
Kelly is just a guy that likes hockey and tries to be cheerful about it. I'm not a huge fan of his but he tends to gush about an opposing team because he seems them less. He's not going to say new stuff about the Flames, who he watches 70+ times a year.
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Plus his job is to talk up the NHL especially in games like this between two teams going nowhere fast. But the gushing gets annoying sometimes when you see players doing nothing much and getting a chance on goal only to be praised like they were the second coming of Bobby Orr. Go ahead be colorful but sheesh don't just fabricate crap out of thin air. We ain't blind!
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03-24-2024, 08:02 PM
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Truculent!
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Originally Posted by dissentowner
Has he changed? I don't know, I have not listened to him this year really. I do know before this season that is very blatently false! If I didn't know he was a Flames broadcaster I would have thought he was part of the opposing teams broadcast in a bias group, like Boston's.
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I think you hear what you want to hear.
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03-24-2024, 08:05 PM
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Franchise Player
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I have a question.
Has Wolf ever hurt himself doing that jump thing he does before games?
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03-24-2024, 08:06 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Apr 2014
Location: Indiana
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Wolf doesn't really get hurt. That's one of my favorite things about him as a prospect. Compared to Gillies, Parsons, McDonald, Irving, etc.
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03-24-2024, 08:07 PM
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Truculent!
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Wolf plays great flames still lose .
This is the way!
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It's the Law of E=NG. If there was an Edmonton on Mars, it would stink like Uranus.
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03-24-2024, 08:07 PM
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Powerplay Quarterback
Join Date: Jun 2007
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We might be a lot better if we hit the net with our shots too
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03-24-2024, 08:08 PM
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Commie Referee
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Small town, B.C.
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Originally Posted by GioforPM
But overall the team is back to some bad habits. Kadri is doing too much by himself, the team is dumping way too much (and following with a single forechecker), the kids have kind of disappeared. Calgary has had territorial advantage but there’s been a few really scattered moments in their own end.
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Toughest job for the coaches, and the players too, is to be focused and put in a an honest effort for the rest of the season. The season is done, players are already thinking about next season, where they will vacation this summer, etc.
The brains aren't all there, and won't be from here on out. Tough just playing out the string.
Good for draft position though
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03-24-2024, 08:09 PM
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Holy hell how wide open are they leaving these guys??
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03-24-2024, 08:10 PM
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Scoring Winger
Join Date: Nov 2017
Location: YYZ
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Quote:
Originally Posted by 1qqaaz
Wolf doesn't really get hurt. That's one of my favorite things about him as a prospect. Compared to Gillies, Parsons, McDonald, Irving, etc.
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Please immediately go knock on some wood and never say this again.
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