Nov 16 practice notes. Rittich starts against Oilers. Lindholm maintenance day

[Strange Brew]

Originally Posted by chummer

The drama on this thread is unreal.

Glad to see some of the usual suspects in the sin bin, long overdue.

I had to go back and look at what happened. A whole bunch of penalties handed out today, but couldn't easily figure out why. Maybe some things got deleted.

Or just too much negativity in general?

[Scornfire]

Unrelated suspensions

[Boo Radley]

Originally Posted by Brick

Turek was much better than Smith.

That's not a hill worth defending. Neither were anything to get excited about.
Both were at the end of the career while playing with the Flames.

[flamesforcup]

This is Rittiches chance to become a starting NHL goalie. Lets see how he handles it. Just beat the Oilers please thanks

[gamesaver]

Originally Posted by Flash Walken

As bad as it looks that management seem to think Smith is the answer, it might be even more troubling to me why they think Smith is the answer over rittich.

What if they believe Smith is a better option than Rittich, for a reason?

Troubling.

The only reason that comes to mind is that they are actually afraid of Rittich turning into a one year starter in a season when his contract expires and he is eligable for arbitration. Maybe they think he is gonna turn into Petr Mrazek after he gets the big money. Wings probably dodged the bullet when they gave Mrazek a bridge contract. He was 92% guy with Vezina upside, 2 seasons later he is playing his way out of this league with 88%. Still better than Smith

[djsFlames]

Just




Win.

[Dion]

Originally Posted by chummer

The drama on this thread is unreal.

Glad to see some of the usual suspects in the sin bin, long overdue.

As usual I miss all the excitement.

[djsFlames]

Originally Posted by Strange Brew

I had to go back and look at what happened. A whole bunch of penalties handed out today, but couldn't easily figure out why. Maybe some things got deleted.

Or just too much negativity in general?

Maybe cause there are already two Smith lynch mobbing threads growing like wildfire and the mods are trying to keep this Calgarypuck not Calgarybitchandmoanaboutsmith.

The Montreal game is over. The sun came up again and a misinterpretation of who was starting and people are losing their damn minds and ready to kick puppies off of bridges lol. It's just a little bit excessive no?

I don't blame them for wanting to restore some peace and civil conversation by cutting a few of the heads off the snake.

[dammage79]

Just to be clear. Those suspensions came from something completely unrelated to hockey.

Muricah brought them down.

[Ped]

Originally Posted by dammage79

Just to be clear. Those suspensions came from something completely unrelated to hockey.

Muricah brought them down.

Nothing brought them down but themselves.

[Leo]

I kinda wanna see a Tkachuk - janko - Bennett line
And a neal - Backlund - Frolik line for some reason

[flamesforcup]

Im glad the second line is being kept together. Give Bennett at least 5-6 games to gel with them. If it works out maybe we can move down Backlund and Bring Lindholm down to the second line centre and put Neal up on the top line.

Gaudreau-Monahan-Neal
Tkachuk-Lindholm-Bennett
x-Backlund-x
How does that look? Gives us some good centre depth.

[JT96912]

Originally Posted by flamesforcup

Im glad the second line is being kept together. Give Bennett at least 5-6 games to gel with them. If it works out maybe we can move down Backlund and Bring Lindholm down to the second line centre and put Neal up on the top line.

Gaudreau-Monahan-Neal
Tkachuk-Lindholm-Bennett
x-Backlund-x
How does that look? Gives us some good centre depth.

I keep reading all these post's about moving Neal up to the top line. I don't get it. He has scored 3 goals this season and 1 assist. 2 of the goals were not on shots/garbage. He has one goal on a real shot all season in a period where we blew up the other team. Why on earth would you move him up to the top line and in the process break it up?

Lindholm has sniped all his chances that Neal could not. I do think that Janko, Dube and Neal could make a great line. Dube is fast, Janko is long with his stick and better at passing than shooting and Neal is a sniper. Could be a great 3rd line. Here's to hope!

[Drunk Uncle]

At some point i'd like to see:

Gaudreau-Monahan-Neal/Bennett
Tkachuk-Backlund-Lindholm
Dube-Janko-Neal/Bennett

Monahan and Gaudreau have shown they can produce with just about anyone on their wing and I think that second line would give us a legit second scoring line and create some match up fits for the opposition. Might be best to try on the road where we don't have last change.

[Snuffleupagus]

Originally Posted by flamesforcup

This is Rittiches chance to become a starting NHL goalie. Lets see how he handles it. Just beat the Oilers please thanks

If Rittich beats the Oil Smith better not see the net until after he either has a really bad game or maybe Dec 8 against Nashville because it's the first of a back to back with the Oil on the 9th

[midniteowl]

Originally Posted by Leo

I kinda wanna see a Tkachuk - janko - Bennett line
And a neal - Backlund - Frolik line for some reason

I really want to see this line as well, I guess I wanted all 3 players to succeed.

[redforever]

Originally Posted by JT96912

I keep reading all these post's about moving Neal up to the top line. I don't get it. He has scored 3 goals this season and 1 assist. 2 of the goals were not on shots/garbage. He has one goal on a real shot all season in a period where we blew up the other team. Why on earth would you move him up to the top line and in the process break it up?

Lindholm has sniped all his chances that Neal could not. I do think that Janko, Dube and Neal could make a great line. Dube is fast, Janko is long with his stick and better at passing than shooting and Neal is a sniper. Could be a great 3rd line. Here's to hope!

Absolutely. Neal might be a finisher but he has to keep up to his teammates on the ice in order to receive something to finish. Don't think he can do that with Gaudreau and Monahan, at least not on a consistent basis. Personally I think Lindholm has made Neal expendable.

It is beginning to sound like Neal is getting the benefit of the doubt in hopes that he works himself out of his slump.

Time to start producing or else just put Neal in comments some have made about Smith being able to turn it around.

[Textcritic]

Originally Posted by Matata

I'm putting the pitchfork down, but I'm not putting it away.

Pitchforks are lame.


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[Phagoof]

Originally Posted by midniteowl

I really want to see this line as well, I guess I wanted all 3 players to succeed.

I like it, I'd rather have Jankowski given a shot on the second line, Backlund hasn't been great as the second line center.

Gaudreau-Monahan-Lindholm
Tkachuk-Jankowski-Bennett
Frolik-Backlund-Neal
Dube-Ryan-Hathaway/Czarnik

[Leo]

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