Tuesday, April 07, 2009
Flames Game Day
Flames @ Canucks, 8PM MT, RSN West
I guess this is a huge game tonight, but I find myself not caring all that much. I get more convinced by the week that, notwithstanding the impact of injuries, the Blue Jackets are at least as tough an opponent as the Blackhawks. I'd like Game 7 in Round 1, if it comes to that, to be at home, but I'm not losing sleep over it.
And the other thing is, a big part of the fun of the regular season is not just seeing where your team finishes so much as finding out what kind of team you have -- and nothing in the final three games is going to affect my opinion of that one way or the other. The Flames:
Since the evidence points so clearly towards Kipper needing lots of work to stay sharp, I'm sure the lads will lose tonight, and #34 will start both ends of the B2B against the Oilers too -- it'll work out for the best!
Calgary 2 (Langkow, Moss), Vancouver 3 (Sundin, Sedin, Salo in the OT). But, Go Flames.
I guess this is a huge game tonight, but I find myself not caring all that much. I get more convinced by the week that, notwithstanding the impact of injuries, the Blue Jackets are at least as tough an opponent as the Blackhawks. I'd like Game 7 in Round 1, if it comes to that, to be at home, but I'm not losing sleep over it.
And the other thing is, a big part of the fun of the regular season is not just seeing where your team finishes so much as finding out what kind of team you have -- and nothing in the final three games is going to affect my opinion of that one way or the other. The Flames:
- are a pretty good 5v5 team that reliably outshoots the other guys
- give up too many shots and chances on the PK
- have an average PP that could go either way over a short stretch of games
- have a stupidly effective "3rd line" of GlenX/Conroy/Moss
- aren't quite as good defensively as they ought to be given their payroll on the blue (and their payroll overall)
Since the evidence points so clearly towards Kipper needing lots of work to stay sharp, I'm sure the lads will lose tonight, and #34 will start both ends of the B2B against the Oilers too -- it'll work out for the best!
Calgary 2 (Langkow, Moss), Vancouver 3 (Sundin, Sedin, Salo in the OT). But, Go Flames.
# posted by Matt @ 4:15 pm 
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I don't know if I've ever seen you predict the Flames to lose.
Given that, I'm tempted to bet my entire net worth on them tonight.
I'd rather play a rookie goalie in the first round of the playoffs, over a Stanley Cup winning one. File under: More Likely to Unravel
Good thing you didn't care. You can take the boy out of southern Alberta, but you can't take the southern Alberta out of his psychological defence mechanisms!
I ran that Chinese text through Google Translate. Turns out it means "Who had a better 5-on-5 save percentage this year: Jeff Drouin-Deslauriers or Miikka Kiprusoff? If you guessed the guy making $8.5 million, you're wrong."
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I don't know if I've ever seen you predict the Flames to lose.
Given that, I'm tempted to bet my entire net worth on them tonight.
I'd rather play a rookie goalie in the first round of the playoffs, over a Stanley Cup winning one. File under: More Likely to Unravel
Good thing you didn't care. You can take the boy out of southern Alberta, but you can't take the southern Alberta out of his psychological defence mechanisms!
I ran that Chinese text through Google Translate. Turns out it means "Who had a better 5-on-5 save percentage this year: Jeff Drouin-Deslauriers or Miikka Kiprusoff? If you guessed the guy making $8.5 million, you're wrong."
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