05-04-2019, 09:45 AM
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#181
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: Phoenix, AZ
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Originally Posted by gamesaver
Maybe Canes just dumped their thrash bin in Calgary, letting us have players and coach they knew they would never contribute to any real success... Peters, Ryan, Hanifin, Lindholm. Lost these 4 guys, added Hamilton and Ferland and suddenly turned from a non-playoff team into contender. Flames have won the worst division in the league and were embarrassed in the first round by a wild card team. I just never liked the narrative of many Flames fans on this forum stating that Tre has fleeced the Canes. You should never evaluate a trade like this just few months after. If the Canes win the cup this year, they won the trade. If the Flames are going to win the cup during those 6 years of Hanifin and Lindholm contracts, Flames won it. But ultimately, you play for win, not for fancy stats or a healthy cap situation. You want to win.
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What a ridiculous trade. Trades are made for mainly cap reasons and future outlook. That’s what the Flames did.
If the Canes make it to the cup final this year it’s not because of Dougie Hamilton. It will be because of the moral of the team. Just look at the Flames in 2004, the Flyers in 2010, the Knights in 2018. The list goes on and on. And, give lots and lots of credit to RB. He’s coached everything out of the Canes.
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05-04-2019, 10:29 AM
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#182
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Lifetime Suspension
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Originally Posted by Strange Brew
I think all of that is true. But a whole lot of people defending the Peters hire argued the Canes had very little talent, were a cap floor team etc. It sure seems like their coach is getting a lot out of them. That doesn’t have to be a knock on Peters, it just seems they found the ideal guy to coach that team.
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CP tends to overlook the Canes also dispatched Jeff Skinner to Buffalo for nothing last summer.
Getting hot at the right time, right mix, not coaching, hell of a thing. If we went down the Canes traditional depth chart we're going to find a lot of holes. Petr Mrazek? Curtis McElhinney? That's their goalies??
Rod the Bod's doing an incredible job.
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05-04-2019, 02:46 PM
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#183
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^^ getting hot at the right time is a big consideration...
all one needs to do is look back on Calgary's 2004 run... looking back, its a 6th place team that went into the playoffs hot and was picked as a team "no one wants to play in round 1"
Calgary rode kipper and iggy, along with role players that exceeded their limitations, all the way to the stanley cup...
but it wasn't the beginning of a dynasty...it was the capturing lightning in a bottle.
it remains to be seen what the canes are.
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05-04-2019, 11:31 PM
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#184
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Quote:
Originally Posted by gamesaver
Maybe Canes just dumped their thrash bin in Calgary, letting us have players and coach they knew they would never contribute to any real success... Peters, Ryan, Hanifin, Lindholm. Lost these 4 guys, added Hamilton and Ferland and suddenly turned from a non-playoff team into contender. Flames have won the worst division in the league and were embarrassed in the first round by a wild card team. I just never liked the narrative of many Flames fans on this forum stating that Tre has fleeced the Canes. You should never evaluate a trade like this just few months after. If the Canes win the cup this year, they won the trade. If the Flames are going to win the cup during those 6 years of Hanifin and Lindholm contracts, Flames won it. But ultimately, you play for win, not for fancy stats or a healthy cap situation. You want to win.
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I am without speech as to the absurdity of this post.
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05-06-2019, 07:19 PM
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#185
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Celebrated Square Root Day
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Originally Posted by goodyear
I would have been ok if Cale Makar wanted to play for his hometown team
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And Brayden Point.
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05-07-2019, 10:14 AM
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#186
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Scoring Winger
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Quote:
Originally Posted by gamesaver
Maybe Canes just dumped their thrash bin in Calgary, letting us have players and coach they knew they would never contribute to any real success... Peters, Ryan, Hanifin, Lindholm. Lost these 4 guys, added Hamilton and Ferland and suddenly turned from a non-playoff team into contender. Flames have won the worst division in the league and were embarrassed in the first round by a wild card team. I just never liked the narrative of many Flames fans on this forum stating that Tre has fleeced the Canes. You should never evaluate a trade like this just few months after. If the Canes win the cup this year, they won the trade. If the Flames are going to win the cup during those 6 years of Hanifin and Lindholm contracts, Flames won it. But ultimately, you play for win, not for fancy stats or a healthy cap situation. You want to win.
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Yep Ferland and his 3 games played and 0 points is the difference in the outcomes for these two teams......
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05-07-2019, 10:33 AM
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#187
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Join Date: Oct 2014
Location: Springbank
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Originally Posted by jayswin
And Brayden Point.
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It's been a long time since a home town player really worked out to be an elite guy. Last one was Vernon? Before him, Lanny (Hanna counts).
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05-08-2019, 10:57 AM
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#188
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In the Sin Bin
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Originally Posted by savemedrzaius
It's funny how a players worth drops once he is traded. Hamilton was a bonafide top pairing defenseman while on the Flames being touted as a Norris candidate.
Now he is dropping to a 3-4. So was he overrated by Flames fans while he was here or are people just sour?
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Gio made him look better than he was because Gio basically carried that pairing in their own zone.
Hamilton is a gifted offensive defenseman who struggles in his own zone. It was pretty clear to many of us while he was here. If you don’t believe me go look up my thoughts and others immediately following last season but before the Hamilton trade.
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05-08-2019, 11:17 AM
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#189
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This narrative that Hamilton is a number 1 defenseman and is leading the Hurricanes to playoff success is ridiculous.
He's only 4th in ice time among their defensemen. He has 7 points in 11 games which is good, but Slavin has 11 points in 11 games while Faulk and Pesce also have 6 points.
It's not like Hamilton is dominating. He's merely a complimentary piece for a team on a Cinderella run.
You watch that Hurricanes team play and its almost a mirror image of the Flames, which shouldn't be surprising since Peters DNA is ingrained in both teams.
If the Flames drew anyone except Mackinnion in the first round, they could very well be in the Conference finals. For whatever reason, this team just panics when there is a single dominant high skilled speedster on the opposition (see Mackinnon and McDavid) and they forget how to play hockey, it's like their kryptonite.
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05-08-2019, 07:29 PM
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#190
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Originally Posted by 868904
If the Flames drew anyone except Mackinnion in the first round, they could very well be in the Conference finals. For whatever reason, this team just panics when there is a single dominant high skilled speedster on the opposition (see Mackinnon and McDavid) and they forget how to play hockey, it's like their kryptonite.
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Calgary played so poorly in all aspects of the game (other than goaltending) they would have likely lost to every team in the playoffs.
And Colorado doesn't have a single high skilled speedster, Rantanen is also excellent.
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05-09-2019, 02:33 AM
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#191
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Scoring Winger
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Originally Posted by The Cobra
I am without speech as to the absurdity of this post.
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I watch the Canes. People saying Hamilton has not contributed are just delusional and salty that he is getting farther than any Flames team in how many years? And all it takes is to leave to a team that is in cap basement, LOL. The absurdity of the post is there because the whole situation is absurd. And the logical take a lot of people here have is that RB'A is a really good coach. What does that say about Peters than? Flames fleeced the Canes it that trade as many of you claim, but the difference in coaching has overturned that? Isn't that even more absurd?
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05-09-2019, 08:50 AM
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#192
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Ontario
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The Flames ####ed up in the 1st round, but conclusions about this trade over a Cinderella story are a bit tilted
Hamilton is a good Defenceman, and Hanifin is a 21 year old who played terribly
Ferland has played 3 games, and Lindholm was a part of a 1st line that we know needs to give more
Rob is a legend in Carolina, and Peter's didn't get his team together in the Playoffs
It's a story of Carolina punching out of their weight class, and a Calgary self-destruction and disappointment. Its a reach to draw any conclusions
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05-09-2019, 09:16 AM
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#193
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Crash and Bang Winger
Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: Amsterdam
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To me if there is one take away from this playoffs, its that anything can happen if a team is hot at the right time. So just build a cap friendly core that will get you to the dance as many times as possible over the next 8 years. dont sign bloated FA contracts, dont trade draft picks at the deadline for rentals so you have a stream of cheap good young players to fill the holes. seems the young guys were our best playoff players anyways.
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05-16-2019, 10:51 PM
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#194
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Franchise Player
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Quote:
Originally Posted by gamesaver
Maybe Canes just dumped their thrash bin in Calgary, letting us have players and coach they knew they would never contribute to any real success... Peters, Ryan, Hanifin, Lindholm. Lost these 4 guys, added Hamilton and Ferland and suddenly turned from a non-playoff team into contender. Flames have won the worst division in the league and were embarrassed in the first round by a wild card team. I just never liked the narrative of many Flames fans on this forum stating that Tre has fleeced the Canes. You should never evaluate a trade like this just few months after. If the Canes win the cup this year, they won the trade. If the Flames are going to win the cup during those 6 years of Hanifin and Lindholm contracts, Flames won it. But ultimately, you play for win, not for fancy stats or a healthy cap situation. You want to win.
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Nope
Ferland 0-6 in the playoffs
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