Feb 16 Practice notes

[sureLoss]

Pat Steinberg @Fan960Steinberg
🚨 Jersey alert!! 🚨

#Flames wearing their retro whites tomorrow afternoon vs. Anaheim.

Pat Steinberg @Fan960Steinberg
Derek Ryan and Mikael Backlund are not on the ice for practice this afternoon. Believe both are under the weather.

Ryan missed Saturday’s game vs. Chicago due to illness. #Flames

Pat Steinberg @Fan960Steinberg
#Flames at practice today:

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

Hanifin-Andersson
Brodie-Stone
Kylington-Yelesin
Davidson

Ryan, Backlund both absent.

[agulati]

Man, if both can’t play tomorrow, we look so sparsely thin. Hopefully Ryan can go.

[GioforPM]

I wonder how many were playing with the flu lately. IMO Monahan looked like it, as well as Tkachuk.

[Manhattanboy]

Afraid I can’t tell healthy Monahan from fluish Monahan.

[Toonage]

Yep, would not shock me if its running through the team.

No pun intended?

[Yrebmi]

Originally Posted by GioforPM

I wonder how many were playing with the flu lately. IMO Monahan looked like it, as well as Tkachuk.

That would at least make some sense of the Jeckle and Hyde act

[GioforPM]

Originally Posted by Manhattanboy

Afraid I can’t tell healthy Monahan from fluish Monahan.

I can. Even without scoring Monahan was getting to tough spots and getting good shots at the net. He was also getting more and more physical this year. Yesterday he wasn’t. Of course, that could be just a bad effort. But when Bennett was out and Ryan Leslie was sick, Ball said something like “it’s running through the team”. Guys play with the flu quite a bit - you have to be really sick to miss a game because of it.

[getoverit]

so I guess we have had the flu since October, explains allot

[GranteedEV]

Originally Posted by GioforPM

I can. Even without scoring Monahan was getting to tough spots and getting good shots at the net.

IIRC Monahan lead our team 5v5 in shots and expected goals...and we outshot the opponent on a whole.

[GioforPM]

Originally Posted by getoverit

so I guess we have had the flu since October, explains allot

Sigh. You know, not every musing is a statement of fact. But there are three players known to have had the flu, plus Ryan Leslie, the PBP guy who’s with them all the time says it’s running through the team. So maybe it is.

[Robo]

Glad they have a pretty long break after this game

[Joborule]

Originally Posted by Yrebmi

That would at least make some sense of the Jeckle and Hyde act

So the team's been sick since Game 1 of the season?

[Flash Walken]

Originally Posted by Joborule

So the team's been sick since Game 1 of the season?

Since last april

[sureLoss]

Sounds like there maybe a call up tomorrow:

Pat Steinberg @Fan960Steinberg
Derek Ryan and Mikael Backlund both question marks tomorrow afternoon vs. Anaheim (illness). Coach Ward says team might have to recall someone from AHL Stockton to address void on the PK if those two can’t play.

No decision on a starting goaltender. #Flames

[Toonage]

Czarnik doesn't kill penalties so not him. Gawdin? Quine?

[Flash Walken]

Buddy!

[KootenayFlamesFan]

If two centers are out I'll guess Quine is the one to get the call. Can play center and the PK.

[Toonage]

Probably want some stability and fewer questions or surprises so Quine it is.

[Rando]

This sad sack of sucks doesn't deserve to wear those jerseys tomorrow.

[The Hendog]

It’s one of those McDavid flus

Caught it at the all star game last year and pretty much impossible to kick

Sportsnet currently working on the documentary on how McDavid flu has infected the entire world