i'm pretty sure, by looking at the scores, that i picked a stellar week to be too busy with work to watch hockey. nary a goal for in two games ??! ouch. that is not a good stat for a defensively challenged team...
i think the thing that upsets me the most, though, is that keenan has proved himself to be technically insane. einstein defined crazy as "doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." i'm sure the textbook definition is more complicated but the bottom line is that playing kipper in both games of a back-to-back has not worked all year, and a different strategy is IMPERATIVE at this point. poor Qmac. he really needs to be given the start in game 1, instead of being expected to save game 2 once it's already well out of hand.
oh, and beyond goaltending, the highly-touted elite forwards need to put the puck in the net. AT LEAST once a game...
the team's identity is obviously faltering, and this is precisely what my fear was going into the trade deadline. i'm not sure why, but the calgary flames don't seem to deal very well with big changes. it happened after the ference/kobasew trade, and it seems to be happening now. i'm not sure how else to explain the plummeting productivity from all of the flames' top guys (iginla, phaneuf, regehr, kiprusoff). admittedly, they were all on the decline (regehr aside, of course) but they are now just another handful of guys in flaming Cs who are struggling game in and game out. i'm really not sure how we got here.
the bad news is that vancouver is a team on the rise, and i wouldn't be remotely surprised to see calgary lose its hold on top spot in the NW before the end of the weekend. of course, the good news is that the team that wins the NW will probably end up meeting columbus in the first round. currently, i'm thinking that's a death sentence....
anyhow. the flames play the wild at home in the tonight and i can't imagine a better matchup to help boost our boys' confidence. we've had our way with them consistently this season, and played well all year in the comforts of the 'dome. i expect a win.
fingers crossed.
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how about a not-so-much-love letter to furlatt?
screwed us twice in one pp, then did not make the same call against the stupid sharks.
it's called "hate mail." i wrote one to cal clutterbuck, and probably am due to write one to each of the past 5 teams that vancouver's played....
Not too worried about Vancouver. They are pulling horeshoes out of their collective ass with their ability to get outshot 2-1 by non-playoff teams and still win. We'll see how well that works against Detroit or San Jose, or heck, even Columbus if they do win the division..
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