Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Flames Game Day
The Flames play the Blue Jackets in Columbus tonight (5PM MT, RSN West) to wrap up the non-division portion of their sked. If the BJs win, they'll be tied with the Oil and Coyotes at 73GP/77Pts, which is to say, they're out of it.Per the little table to the left, Calgary could certainly use a W to position themselves for these final 9 in-division games; after dominating the division head-to-head for the first 1-1/2 seasons after the lockout, they've been rather mediocre against their rivals in the season or so since.
Table #2 is just a little FYI, I don't think there's much that's stunning here (shootout and empty-net goals are excluded; penalty shot goals are the reason why the Even Strength goal differential and the Special Teams goal differential don't quite add up to the total in many cases).Anaheim, Calgary, and Colorado all have given back a lot of their good EV play on special teams. If there's one team's numbers here that challenge the conventional wisdom, I think it's San Jose...
I'm always hearing that the reason they're so good is that they are deep at forward and can roll 4 lines. As it turns out (PK excluded), they're not that good when Joe Thornton isn't on the ice.
Calgary 3 (Lombardi, Iginla, Phaneuf)
Columbus 1 (BoA fave Michael Peca)
Go Flames.
# posted by Matt @ 4:36 pm 
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If the BJs win, they'll be tied with the Oil and Coyotes at 73GP/77Pts, which is to say, they're out of it.
You are so subtle. :)
The Flames STGD is a concern. The way to play against the Canucks is to play physical against their softer players, but to do that you have to kill penalties well. Weak PK was really a concern early in the year, but it still isn't great. If the Flames have to alter their style to stay away from penalties, that is going to hurt them.
If the BJs win, they'll be tied with the Oil and Coyotes at 73GP/77Pts, which is to say, they're out of it.
3-0 Columbus. Karma's a bitch sometimes, eh Fenwick?
LOL @ Falmes fans!
Thumped buy the mighty Cleveland Barons of Ohio.
Ugh...they wouldn't want to make the last 10 games of the season easy on my heart for once. As O4O would say: that was a thumping.
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If the BJs win, they'll be tied with the Oil and Coyotes at 73GP/77Pts, which is to say, they're out of it.
You are so subtle. :)
The Flames STGD is a concern. The way to play against the Canucks is to play physical against their softer players, but to do that you have to kill penalties well. Weak PK was really a concern early in the year, but it still isn't great. If the Flames have to alter their style to stay away from penalties, that is going to hurt them.
# posted by 
: March 18, 2008 5:03 pm
: March 18, 2008 5:03 pm If the BJs win, they'll be tied with the Oil and Coyotes at 73GP/77Pts, which is to say, they're out of it.
3-0 Columbus. Karma's a bitch sometimes, eh Fenwick?
LOL @ Falmes fans!
Thumped buy the mighty Cleveland Barons of Ohio.
# posted by : March 18, 2008 8:24 pm
: March 18, 2008 8:24 pm Ugh...they wouldn't want to make the last 10 games of the season easy on my heart for once. As O4O would say: that was a thumping.
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