Saturday, November 04, 2006
Flames Game Day
Calgary plays their first back-to-back of the season tonight in St. Louis (6PM MST, radio only). Jeez, when Calgary gets back into this thing, it's not going to be thanks to the soft part of their schedule, which regrettably is now at an end.
I consider myself pretty lucky: I missed seeing the first period of last night's game live. So what I did see, the Flames looked great: fast, aggressive, and by far the superior team. Unfortunately, Noodles' goaltending was craptastic. Two of the first three were stoppable, but forget that: the fourth one was Conklinesque. If the other team has the puck about 18 inches north of the goal line at the bottom of the circle, what's the width of "open" net the goalie has to cover? Five inches? This was not achieved successfully, and we ended up losing a point as a result.
(Also, this is pretty unfair criticism because 7/11 S-O SV% is not that bad, but three times, McLennan had a chance to win the game on the spot by stopping the approaching Columbus shooter after the Flame player had scored, and went 0-3. That's mighty frustrating.)
Fun St. Louis stat #1: Radek Dvorak has 4X as much PP time as PK time; he also has 1 SHG and 0 PPG
Fun St. Louis stat #2: Team leader in icetime -- Dennis Wideman
Fun Flames stat #1: A win tonight would give them the identical record as last season thru 13 games (4-7-2)
Fun Flames memories:
I see a three-nil Kipper shutout in my immediate future. Go Flames.
I consider myself pretty lucky: I missed seeing the first period of last night's game live. So what I did see, the Flames looked great: fast, aggressive, and by far the superior team. Unfortunately, Noodles' goaltending was craptastic. Two of the first three were stoppable, but forget that: the fourth one was Conklinesque. If the other team has the puck about 18 inches north of the goal line at the bottom of the circle, what's the width of "open" net the goalie has to cover? Five inches? This was not achieved successfully, and we ended up losing a point as a result.
(Also, this is pretty unfair criticism because 7/11 S-O SV% is not that bad, but three times, McLennan had a chance to win the game on the spot by stopping the approaching Columbus shooter after the Flame player had scored, and went 0-3. That's mighty frustrating.)
Fun St. Louis stat #1: Radek Dvorak has 4X as much PP time as PK time; he also has 1 SHG and 0 PPG
Fun St. Louis stat #2: Team leader in icetime -- Dennis Wideman
Fun Flames stat #1: A win tonight would give them the identical record as last season thru 13 games (4-7-2)
Fun Flames memories:
- In 2001-2002, the Flames started the year 13-2-2-2 and gave Roman Turek a 4-year contract. They looked legitimately awesome. I believe they were then mathematically eliminated from the playoffs with two weeks left in the season.
- In 2003-2004, the Flames started the year 6-8-2 and were in about 14th place. They looked legitimately crappy. They traded for Kipper, finished in 6th, and won three playoff rounds.
- In 2005-2006, the Flames started the season 4-7-2 (the same record they'll have if they win tonight. They showed flashes, but looked legitimately underpowered. They then won 8 straight, and ended up winning the NW Division by 8 points.
I see a three-nil Kipper shutout in my immediate future. Go Flames.
# posted by Matt @ 9:38 am 
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the difference between last year and this year is that the schedule was much softer for the Flames, and Yelle won't be coming back any time soon like Regher did last year.
McGoo sucks
Go Oilers
If the team can build on the final 2 periods and carry that into tonight it should be a good night.
3-0 Flames: Kobasew, Tanguay(x2)
AY least they played NHL caliber hockey last night in the last two periods. Hopefully the Lombo/Kobasew/Tanguay trio remains intact. They were great last night.
I predict Stempniak puts the dagger into the Flames season. There should be a warrant out for his arrest in this province. Bastard.
The Blues have a PP out there right now that has Weight, Guerin, Brewer and Ruchinsky...
Am I the only one who'd find it a little funny if Dvorak came over the boards?
Pretty funny looking shutout by Kiprusoff tonight.
- PDO
Heh, yeah, the Blues had a PP about halfway thru the 3rd and I was pretty nervous; then I heard Brewer's name on the PbyP and calmed right down. (Thanks, Oilogosphere!!)
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the difference between last year and this year is that the schedule was much softer for the Flames, and Yelle won't be coming back any time soon like Regher did last year.
McGoo sucks
Go Oilers
# posted by 
: November 04, 2006 11:42 am
: November 04, 2006 11:42 am If the team can build on the final 2 periods and carry that into tonight it should be a good night.
3-0 Flames: Kobasew, Tanguay(x2)
# posted by : November 04, 2006 11:50 am
: November 04, 2006 11:50 am AY least they played NHL caliber hockey last night in the last two periods. Hopefully the Lombo/Kobasew/Tanguay trio remains intact. They were great last night.
I predict Stempniak puts the dagger into the Flames season. There should be a warrant out for his arrest in this province. Bastard.
The Blues have a PP out there right now that has Weight, Guerin, Brewer and Ruchinsky...
Am I the only one who'd find it a little funny if Dvorak came over the boards?
Pretty funny looking shutout by Kiprusoff tonight.
- PDO
Heh, yeah, the Blues had a PP about halfway thru the 3rd and I was pretty nervous; then I heard Brewer's name on the PbyP and calmed right down. (Thanks, Oilogosphere!!)
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