GDT: Flames @ Detroit, 2 hours from now.

[joescores]

Noticeables:

* we can't win key FOs
* Hanley was very smooth, deserves more TOI
* Kadri is boardline shit
* team has no talent apart from Zary
* Sharky stays hot
* Rooney- the puck ends on his stick 8/10
* to be benched- Rooney, Kuzmenko

PS: Vladar was decent (awful on the first goal)

 

[Figgy44]

Hopefully we'll be tied for the 8th playoff seed at the end of the year, but lose a tie breaker, so we can draft 16th as usual.
This point will probably f*** us hard lol.

Need more positive thinking. The goal is to piss off Montreal. Playoffs is just icing on the cake.

Giving Montreal a pick starting with a 2 would be pure success for this season.

 

[Figgy44]

You guys can't be serious..... the guy jumps on the ice for a change and the guy he is switching with is in the middle of the ice 10 feet inside his blue line in his own end on the long change. He's a good 50 feet away. Even the closer guy is still 30 feet away. They cheated to save the breakaway.

Uh, none of us are saying the call was bullshit. And it didn't seem like the players were 30 and 50... But I'd have to check replay again.

We were saying it's a rough call because it's a crappy way to lose.

Is it an incorrect call? No. Teams usually get away with it though.

Losing this way basically feels like getting a ticket for running a yellow light.

 

[Bounces R Way]

Ok that's actually pretty egregious lol

Not a very good effort from the Flames, Wings weren't a whole lot better. Had trouble breaking out, had trouble getting speed through the NZ, had trouble maintaining any pressure in the OZ, and had trouble generating any quality chances. This whole we'll start playing in the 3rd is not a recipe for success. Got a pt I guess.

This is exactly when I would sit a couple guys and call up some Wranglers. If you lack talent you gotta be hungry in this league and the Flames weren't hungry enough tonight. At the very least get Klapka in for the next one.