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Misterbator
Calgary Flames
Location: Monkeytown, NB
Joined: 10.13.2014

Sep 3 @ 11:54 PM ET
Flames are going to fuking destroy those homolords up nort
itwasin
Location: It Was In - June 5 2004, AB
Joined: 09.28.2013

Sep 4 @ 1:23 AM ET
I spent some time today looking at the Flames' NHL player stats trying to find something that hasn't been reported 100 times already.
So here are 2 things that I think qualify:
1. The NHL keeps track of giveaways and takeaways now so I figure a variation of the traditional plus/minus would be one based on takeaways compared to giveaways. Imo, because takeaways (and giveaways) by defencemen most often occur deep in the defensive zone they should be considered when evaluating a d-man's overall effectiveness.
For the 240 defencemen who played at least 20 games last year only 13 had a positive result.
Giordano was one of the 13 with a TkA/TgA ratio of 1.25 (anything above 1.0 is good; below 1.0 is bad.)
By comparison DH's ratio of 0.43 was the worst of Flames Dmen >20GP.

The second surprise for me was to see that although Sam Bennett was infrequently used on faceoffs he led all veteran centres in the entire league when it came to winning short-handed faceoffs.
Overall, percentage-wise he was one of the best in the league and it's a mystery to me why he wasn't used more - especially on the penalty kill - given that his TkA/GvA ratio (1.69) was tied with Backlund for best on the entire team. With the numbers he had last year I look for him to be used a lot more on the PK this year (and wonder if maybe he was in GG's doghouse last year for some reason.)
Helios
Calgary Flames
Location: AB
Joined: 08.11.2016

Sep 4 @ 4:21 AM ET
Jeff Glass signed a PTO with us.

Likely just a move to fill the veteran quota of the roster when the team goes to China, but an interesting PTO none-the-less. It will at least create more competirion for the backup spot with Gillies and Rittich, so I don't hate it by any means.
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