Todd Cordell: G76 Calgary Flames @ San Jose Sharks: Five things to watch

Fist, for anyone who cares , got my moolah on the sharks

Lazar on 1st....Brouwer on 2nd. Time to call Tim hunter

Looks like it’s going to be Rittich in net. Good. Give him a few more games.

Looks like it’s going to be Rittich in net. Good. Give him a few more games.
- TandA4Flames

Yup, wouldn't mind seeing Gillies again too. May as well shut down Smith and tell him to have a good off season and be ready to go in Sept.

Fixing my quotes here.

Lazar on 1st....Brouwer on 2nd. Time to call Tim hunter
- numbear

Man you really got a hard on for Tim Hunter don't you. I swear over 50% of your comments are about him lol. Where is he currently coaching?

I’m curious to see how fans would approach fixing the Flames? Are the really that far off?

We have had a number of injuries this year and no one can deny that losing smith was the back breaker. Had he stayed healthy we would likely be heading to the playoffs or still in the conversation. Unfortunately losing Smith during a season where BT went all in makes it a lot harder to swallow.

Having said that I believe the pressure has never been higher on BT to make a change, which is not necessarily a bad thing. There is a lot of interesting Free agents available this year and buying out Brouwer can easily put us in the conversation to pay for the available talent.

You would have to believe that BT will be talking to Travers if he becomes available. Kovalchuk is also an interesting possibility in my opinion, a little old or how about Kane, or Nash?

As for Coaching, if Joel Quenneville becomes available there should be no hard feelings to let Gulutzan go!

At the draft it sounds like we are hungry to get back in the first round. I salivate at the idea of getting Brady on this team, and all though that is more or less a pipe dream I wonder if Buffalo somehow gets screwed again would they be interest in GIO? I would much rather a Brodie + Jankowski deal but I just don’t know if that is enough.

Looks like it’s going to be Rittich in net. Good. Give him a few more games.
- TandA4Flames

I agree. Give Smitty a few more games but let's see what Rittich is all about with a string of games to get some rhythm again.

Man you really got a hard on for Tim Hunter don't you. I swear over 50% of your comments are about him lol. Where is he currently coaching?
- Flamin_Irishmin

Coaching the top team in the dub! Would be a great add to this team.

Could do, but Gillies and the heat are in the first round of playoffs with the moose..
- Flamin_Irishmin

Not playoffs yet. Just the regular season

It's called an opinion dips**t lets hear yours?
- DinoRondelly

Ok, sure.

Why would we fire Brian Burke? Treliving is the GM and makes all the personnel delegation decisions for the most part. People who want Burke fired just hate the guy so that's why they want him gone. No real rationality behind that thought.

Why would we fire Brad Treliving? Because of the Brouwer signing? Sure it wasn't one of his best by far. Hamonic was brought in for what he is, a defensive defenceman with character and grit. People are just mad because it wasn't lottery protected. Hindsight is 20/20. He's made some excellent contract extensions setting our team up for the future, and is top 5 percentile in GM's that work the phone to make the club better. It would be folly to fire him based on a few errors in comparison to what good he has done for the club so far.

As far as GG is concerned, I agree the general consensus is to fire him and get a new coach. People have this wet dream like that's going to solve our problems and a new coach will bring us into the playoffs next year. A new coaching staff with new systems is going to take half a season to get used to, meaning chances are good that we don't make the playoffs next year because of it. Irrational people will be calling for the new coaches head too if we don't make the playoffs next year as well. Seems like rearranging the deck chairs to me.

Edit:Exurpt from yesterday.

Sorry for being so grumpy with my posts lately, all this gloom and doom and complaining gets under my skin a bit.

Dino wants to fire most of the management and Kevin R says fuk em all and he said he'd replace the ENTIRE team if it were up to him. This nonsense just pisses me off.


But everybody is entitled to their own opinion and I respect that. So business as usual I guess.

Not playoffs yet. Just the regular season
- K-man25

Oh, my mistake! Thanks for the update!

One guy i'd like to see added to the organization is Kelly Kisio. He should be Director of Scouting. He did an amazing job with the Hitmen and he was instrumental in building Vegas. Not sure why they let him get away but get him back. The Flames could really use a hockey guy should can evaluate talent. If I was BT i'd hire him and make him my go to guy.

I’m curious to see how fans would approach fixing the Flames? Are the really that far off?

We have had a number of injuries this year and no one can deny that losing smith was the back breaker. Had he stayed healthy we would likely be heading to the playoffs or still in the conversation. Unfortunately losing Smith during a season where BT went all in makes it a lot harder to swallow.

Having said that I believe the pressure has never been higher on BT to make a change, which is not necessarily a bad thing. There is a lot of interesting Free agents available this year and buying out Brouwer can easily put us in the conversation to pay for the available talent.

You would have to believe that BT will be talking to Travers if he becomes available. Kovalchuk is also an interesting possibility in my opinion, a little old or how about Kane, or Nash?

As for Coaching, if Joel Quenneville becomes available there should be no hard feelings to let Gulutzan go!

At the draft it sounds like we are hungry to get back in the first round. I salivate at the idea of getting Brady on this team, and all though that is more or less a pipe dream I wonder if Buffalo somehow gets screwed again would they be interest in GIO? I would much rather a Brodie + Jankowski deal but I just don’t know if that is enough.
- Yeah...Baby

If available, Quennville would be great. I doubt the team would spend the money on him, though.

Is Brady Tkachuk worth trading a center with 2nd line potential for?

I don’t think many changes will happen this summer. Maybe a couple of low key free agent signings. I’d like to see JVR in Flames silks.

I’m curious to see how fans would approach fixing the Flames? Are the really that far off?

We have had a number of injuries this year and no one can deny that losing smith was the back breaker. Had he stayed healthy we would likely be heading to the playoffs or still in the conversation. Unfortunately losing Smith during a season where BT went all in makes it a lot harder to swallow.

Having said that I believe the pressure has never been higher on BT to make a change, which is not necessarily a bad thing. There is a lot of interesting Free agents available this year and buying out Brouwer can easily put us in the conversation to pay for the available talent.

You would have to believe that BT will be talking to Travers if he becomes available. Kovalchuk is also an interesting possibility in my opinion, a little old or how about Kane, or Nash?

As for Coaching, if Joel Quenneville becomes available there should be no hard feelings to let Gulutzan go!

At the draft it sounds like we are hungry to get back in the first round. I salivate at the idea of getting Brady on this team, and all though that is more or less a pipe dream I wonder if Buffalo somehow gets screwed again would they be interest in GIO? I would much rather a Brodie + Jankowski deal but I just don’t know if that is enough.
- Yeah...Baby

No, they're not, though quite a few people seem to think otherwise. There's a Sportsnet article that showed our advanced stats indicating that we should be comfortably in the playoffs, and yet we aren't. You have to attribute at least some of that to bad luck. Plus, the Smith injury is really what brought us down. If he's not hurt, we're likely in.

That said, I think you're right that BT's under pressure to do something now regardless. If we're looking at areas of concern, I think Top 6 RW is still the biggest priority, and while our depth could certainly be better I don't think it's terrible. I'd like to see us go after JVR in free agency, personally. He'd slot in nicely to our Top 6 and adds the scoring RW that we need. I think he'd be a great fit.

BT is also apparently trying to trade back into the 1st round, though I'm not sure how necessary that is. I think Brodie should be able to fetch us a 1st and possibly another asset depending on how late in the draft it is, so if we do go that route he's the guy I can see moving out. Might take more than just Brodie depending on how high we want to get, though. I'm not sure I'm a fan of trading in, but it depends on what BT plans to do with the pick he might acquire. I don't think I'm the only one who would like to see us somehow get Brady Tkachuk.

So yeah, I really don't think we need to do that much. Get a Top 6 scorer, preferably on the right side, and maybe shore up the depth a bit more. We don't need to do anything drastic.

Maybe the flames should get more truculent!!!

Maybe the flames should get more truculent!!!
- pzoxic

Very well. Lucic for Brouwer it is.

Very well. Lucic for Brouwer it is.
- Wildschwein

Maybe we can get john Scott cheep. Or George parros

It's called an opinion dips**t lets hear yours?
- DinoRondelly

Ok, sure.

Why would we fire Brian Burke? Treliving is the GM and makes all the personnel delegation decisions for the most part. People who want Burke fired just hate the guy so that's why they want him gone. No real rationality behind that thought.

Why would we fire Brad Treliving? Because of the Brouwer signing? Sure it wasn't one of his best by far. Hamonic was brought in for what he is, a defensive defenceman with character and grit. People are just mad because it wasn't lottery protected. Hindsight is 20/20. He's made some excellent contract extensions setting our team up for the future, and is top 5 percentile in GM's that work the phone to make the club better. It would be folly to fire him based on a few errors in comparison to what good he has done for the club so far.

As far as GG is concerned, I agree the general consensus is to fire him and get a new coach. People have this wet dream like that's going to solve our problems and a new coach will bring us into the playoffs next year. A new coaching staff with new systems is going to take half a season to get used to, meaning chances are good that we don't make the playoffs next year because of it. Irrational people will be calling for the new coaches head too if we don't make the playoffs next year as well. Seems like rearranging the deck chairs to me.

Edit:Exurpt from yesterday.

Sorry for being so grumpy with my posts lately, all this gloom and doom and complaining gets under my skin a bit.

Dino wants to fire most of the management and Kevin R says fuk em all and he said he'd replace the ENTIRE team if it were up to him. This nonsense just pisses me off.


But everybody is entitled to their own opinion and I respect that. So business as usual I guess.
- Flamin_Irishmin

Its this kind of thinking that makes me laugh! They knew the system this year and are not making the playoffs, so lets stick with Glughead because the players know the system!
Wake up! The system is part of the problem!

Sorry, but damn Gaudreau "defending" on that SHG was Ovechkin "disconnected controller" bad Just coasts on by and doesn't even try to engage.

It's called an opinion dips**t lets hear yours?
- DinoRondelly

Ok, sure.

Why would we fire Brian Burke? Treliving is the GM and makes all the personnel delegation decisions for the most part. People who want Burke fired just hate the guy so that's why they want him gone. No real rationality behind that thought.

Why would we fire Brad Treliving? Because of the Brouwer signing? Sure it wasn't one of his best by far. Hamonic was brought in for what he is, a defensive defenceman with character and grit. People are just mad because it wasn't lottery protected. Hindsight is 20/20. He's made some excellent contract extensions setting our team up for the future, and is top 5 percentile in GM's that work the phone to make the club better. It would be folly to fire him based on a few errors in comparison to what good he has done for the club so far.

As far as GG is concerned, I agree the general consensus is to fire him and get a new coach. People have this wet dream like that's going to solve our problems and a new coach will bring us into the playoffs next year. A new coaching staff with new systems is going to take half a season to get used to, meaning chances are good that we don't make the playoffs next year because of it. Irrational people will be calling for the new coaches head too if we don't make the playoffs next year as well. Seems like rearranging the deck chairs to me.

Edit:Exurpt from yesterday.

Sorry for being so grumpy with my posts lately, all this gloom and doom and complaining gets under my skin a bit.

Dino wants to fire most of the management and Kevin R says fuk em all and he said he'd replace the ENTIRE team if it were up to him. This nonsense just pisses me off.


But everybody is entitled to their own opinion and I respect that. So business as usual I guess.
- Flamin_Irishmin

a new system. These are pro hockey players it's not like there learning Greek!! There are only so meny systems out there and I'm sure these guys have seen them all.or at least a version of. It's all about executing that system! And it's obvious this group of guys aren't listening to gg and the rest of the staff! For that very reason fire every coach except Martian G

It's called an opinion dips**t lets hear yours?
- DinoRondelly

Ok, sure.

Why would we fire Brian Burke? Treliving is the GM and makes all the personnel delegation decisions for the most part. People who want Burke fired just hate the guy so that's why they want him gone. No real rationality behind that thought.

Why would we fire Brad Treliving? Because of the Brouwer signing? Sure it wasn't one of his best by far. Hamonic was brought in for what he is, a defensive defenceman with character and grit. People are just mad because it wasn't lottery protected. Hindsight is 20/20. He's made some excellent contract extensions setting our team up for the future, and is top 5 percentile in GM's that work the phone to make the club better. It would be folly to fire him based on a few errors in comparison to what good he has done for the club so far.

As far as GG is concerned, I agree the general consensus is to fire him and get a new coach. People have this wet dream like that's going to solve our problems and a new coach will bring us into the playoffs next year. A new coaching staff with new systems is going to take half a season to get used to, meaning chances are good that we don't make the playoffs next year because of it. Irrational people will be calling for the new coaches head too if we don't make the playoffs next year as well. Seems like rearranging the deck chairs to me.

Edit:Exurpt from yesterday.

Sorry for being so grumpy with my posts lately, all this gloom and doom and complaining gets under my skin a bit.

Dino wants to fire most of the management and Kevin R says fuk em all and he said he'd replace the ENTIRE team if it were up to him. This nonsense just pisses me off.


But everybody is entitled to their own opinion and I respect that. So business as usual I guess.
- Flamin_Irishmin

Soooooo after we lose these next 6 games & Oilers pass us by, you still in love with this team??? You guys aren't hard to please out on the island. If it takes a half a year for players to learn systems then I think the systems are a little too out there.
Never mind my frustration, wouldn't want to make you mad, enjoy the rest of the season

Valimaki 2 Dube 0
Was at the game tonight gotta love hockey, these two had a thing going all game. I'm sure they'll talk about in Penticton.