Monday, February 2, 2009

flames v. avs: IT'S GROUNDHOG DAY !!

mark your calendars for mid-march cause all of the groundhogs (punxatawney phil, wiarton willie and our own balzac billy) have apparently seen their shadows, so we've got six more weeks of winter comin'... though it sure won't feel like it in cowtown THIS week !!!!

today felt like groundhog day, the movie, to me as i spent the entirety of it (as i did yesterday) looking forward to tonight's matchup with our division rivals from the american rockies. with any luck, the game will also be a repeat of the nov 18th contest, where the flames played their best hockey in years, dominating their opponent to a 3-0 final.

what i noticed at the nashville game last week was that the defensive pairings TOI is starting to even out; gio/sarich are clocking in around 17.5 mins, regehr/aucoin around 21 and phaneuf/pardy around 25. this is a far cry from a month-or-so ago when dion was literally playing half-games and gio was only getting about 12 minutes of icetime. special teams are also, obviously a factor.

SCROLL DOWN TO VOTE IN THE POLL BELOW, IF YOU HAVEN'T ALREADY !!! IT'S SHAPING UP TO BE A GOOD ONE !!!!

go flames !
:)

1 comment:

walkinvisible said...

for the record:
the game that was on repeat was, unfortunately, the 6-2 loss from a few weeks ago, and not the manhandling of the avs back in november.

boo !