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Todd Cordell
Location: Barrie, ON
Joined: 02.10.2014

Jan 15 @ 10:49 AM ET
Todd Cordell: Jets 4, Flames 3: Five observations from an opening night defeat
Clyde334
Calgary Flames
Location: OG loves Nenshi!! Nenshi sucks!!, AB
Joined: 06.19.2016

Jan 15 @ 10:59 AM ET
Todd Cordell: Jets 4, Flames 3: Five observations from an opening night defeat
- ToddCordellCGY

Very disheartening!
Clyde334
Calgary Flames
Location: OG loves Nenshi!! Nenshi sucks!!, AB
Joined: 06.19.2016

Jan 15 @ 11:01 AM ET
Todd Cordell: Jets 4, Flames 3: Five observations from an opening night defeat
- ToddCordellCGY

Got the early lead, got cocky & quit playing. Very sad for the first game!
redseerpf
Calgary Flames
Joined: 06.14.2019

Jan 15 @ 11:05 AM ET
Gaudreau and Monahan looked like PP specialists the whole game. Exact same feeling than for the back-half of last season. Very worrying. If we can't count on them to provide anything at 5v5 it will be a long season.
Pacificgem
Vancouver Canucks
Location: Swedish4Ever, BC
Joined: 07.01.2007

Jan 15 @ 11:06 AM ET
Flames suck goat balls, we're gonna kick your ass tomorrow....game on
redseerpf
Calgary Flames
Joined: 06.14.2019

Jan 15 @ 11:08 AM ET
But : if the play on Laine's first goal reverts into a FatRas goal instead, we're probably not having the same conversation this morning. That's the definition of bad puck luck.
DuranDuran
Calgary Flames
Location: Quito
Joined: 09.29.2015

Jan 15 @ 11:14 AM ET
Rick Ball jinxed it in the first period.
DuranDuran
Calgary Flames
Location: Quito
Joined: 09.29.2015

Jan 15 @ 11:15 AM ET
But : if the play on Laine's first goal reverts into a FatRas goal instead, we're probably not having the same conversation this morning. That's the definition of bad puck luck.
- redseerpf


The Flames of last year were not a resilient team.
Kevin R
Calgary Flames
Location: E5 = It aint gonna happen.
Joined: 02.10.2010

Jan 15 @ 11:39 AM ET
Rick Ball jinxed it in the first period.
- DuranDuran

That was exactly my thoughts when we scored that 3rd goal & Rick Ball opens his fcking mouth. What a turd!!! It was such a d!ck thing to do at that point of the game.
I was furious the rest of the game & wished I knew how to get social media to lobby getting the idiot kicked off the Flames broadcasting crew. Moron. Cant believe he did that.
Clyde334
Calgary Flames
Location: OG loves Nenshi!! Nenshi sucks!!, AB
Joined: 06.19.2016

Jan 15 @ 12:00 PM ET
Rick Ball jinxed it in the first period.
- DuranDuran

You’re blaming Ball?!?! LMAO!!!
Load Management
Season Ticket Holder
Vancouver Canucks
Location: Billings Spit, BC
Joined: 09.22.2019

Jan 15 @ 12:02 PM ET
Flames suck goat balls, we're gonna kick your ass tomorrow....game on
- Pacificgem

Kevin R
Calgary Flames
Location: E5 = It aint gonna happen.
Joined: 02.10.2010

Jan 15 @ 12:15 PM ET
You’re blaming Ball?!?! LMAO!!!
- Clyde334

I was kicking furniture after steaming about it in the 2nd period haha. I saw the puck luck just seep out of the Flames bench after he said that. I know it's stupid but there was no reason to say that in the first period.
RedC21
Calgary Flames
Joined: 01.18.2013

Jan 15 @ 12:30 PM ET
I would definitely say we looked like a bubble team for the last 2 periods which isn’t necessarily bad but not necessarily good either, just alright. Only clearly bad thing was the lucic turnover but even outside of that he was pretty mediocre which isn’t terrible

One change I would like to see is put Mangiapane on the JG Mony line like Todd suggested in the last blog. Leivo looked good there but it’s evident they need an energy player to do the dirty work. Also a shooter like leivo would be a good add to that backlund line since it doesn’t really have one currently.

I would say all the new guys looked fairly good, stats aside I didn’t notice tanev much which given his style of play is usually a good thing and you can’t fully blame markstrom on any of those goals (although him playing the puck gave me terrible flashbacks from the mike smith blunders).

Lastly I’ll add that if Andersson can play like that every game he may propel himself to becoming one of the top D in the league in the next year or two. Giordano on the other hand I didn’t think looked great, but I’ll remain optimistic with him and the rest of the team in the hope that the worst of what we saw was just rust that will get knocked off as the season goes on
K-man25
Calgary Flames
Location: Sayulita
Joined: 09.02.2014

Jan 15 @ 12:36 PM ET
1st game of the season, 11 years and counting.

K-man25
Calgary Flames
Location: Sayulita
Joined: 09.02.2014

Jan 15 @ 12:37 PM ET
I would definitely say we looked like a bubble team for the last 2 periods which isn’t necessarily bad but not necessarily good either, just alright. Only clearly bad thing was the lucic turnover but even outside of that he was pretty mediocre which isn’t terrible

One change I would like to see is put Mangiapane on the JG Mony line like Todd suggested in the last blog. Leivo looked good there but it’s evident they need an energy player to do the dirty work. Also a shooter like leivo would be a good add to that backlund line since it doesn’t really have one currently.

I would say all the new guys looked fairly good, stats aside I didn’t notice tanev much which given his style of play is usually a good thing and you can’t fully blame markstrom on any of those goals (although him playing the puck gave me terrible flashbacks from the mike smith blunders).

Lastly I’ll add that if Andersson can play like that every game he may propel himself to becoming one of the top D in the league in the next year or two. Giordano on the other hand I didn’t think looked great, but I’ll remain optimistic with him and the rest of the team in the hope that the worst of what we saw was just rust that will get knocked off as the season goes on

- RedC21


Agree on Anderson, his game was great!
Just have to thank the Canucks for giving up that pick for Fartski!
K-man25
Calgary Flames
Location: Sayulita
Joined: 09.02.2014

Jan 15 @ 12:38 PM ET
Flames suck goat balls, we're gonna kick your ass tomorrow....game on
- Pacificgem

In Benning we trust!
What happened to Demko?
Clyde334
Calgary Flames
Location: OG loves Nenshi!! Nenshi sucks!!, AB
Joined: 06.19.2016

Jan 15 @ 12:38 PM ET
I was kicking furniture after steaming about it in the 2nd period haha. I saw the puck luck just seep out of the Flames bench after he said that. I know it's stupid but there was no reason to say that in the first period.
- Kevin R

What did he actually say?
K-man25
Calgary Flames
Location: Sayulita
Joined: 09.02.2014

Jan 15 @ 12:39 PM ET

- Load Management

Slurp slurp!
DEDDIE
Calgary Flames
Location: Calgary
Joined: 01.08.2019

Jan 15 @ 12:44 PM ET
I personally thought Tanev was excellent and playing in the defensive zone was not a fault of his. Thank god we had him in the 2nd and 3rd in fact.
I did not think the Vali/Nesterov pair looked good at all.
Trevor_Neufeld
Calgary Flames
Location: Calgary, AB
Joined: 02.11.2007

Jan 15 @ 12:54 PM ET
Oh man if I have to be subject to Tanev getting ripped on every game thread this year I’m gonna just stick to reddit. He was far from our worst defenseman yesterday. Todd is a fvckin advanced stats simp.
DEDDIE
Calgary Flames
Location: Calgary
Joined: 01.08.2019

Jan 15 @ 12:58 PM ET
Oh man if I have to be subject to Tanev getting ripped on every game thread this year I’m gonna just stick to reddit. He was far from our worst defenseman yesterday. Todd is a fvckin advanced stats simp.
- fry

It is getting a bit annoying and honestly makes you wonder if he even watches the games?
DEDDIE
Calgary Flames
Location: Calgary
Joined: 01.08.2019

Jan 15 @ 1:03 PM ET
Im guessing Hanifin will get a game and we see Mackey tomorrow night.
Kevin R
Calgary Flames
Location: E5 = It aint gonna happen.
Joined: 02.10.2010

Jan 15 @ 1:08 PM ET
What did he actually say?
- Clyde334

Right after we scored that 3rd goal & we were looking real good he said it looks like the Flames are going to be able to break the season opener losing streak they have had since 2009 or 08. Hrudey started to dig him about putting the kiss of death on them & sure as sh!t the wheels started to come off lol


Pretty bad when we're that fragile of a team that superstitions must be heeded

Clyde334
Calgary Flames
Location: OG loves Nenshi!! Nenshi sucks!!, AB
Joined: 06.19.2016

Jan 15 @ 1:09 PM ET
Oh man if I have to be subject to Tanev getting ripped on every game thread this year I’m gonna just stick to reddit. He was far from our worst defenseman yesterday. Todd is a fvckin advanced stats simp.
- fry

Agreed!! Donkey all day long!
Clyde334
Calgary Flames
Location: OG loves Nenshi!! Nenshi sucks!!, AB
Joined: 06.19.2016

Jan 15 @ 1:10 PM ET
Right after we scored that 3rd goal & we were looking real good he said it looks like the Flames are going to be able to break the season opener losing streak they have had since 2009 or 08. Hrudey started to dig him about putting the kiss of death on them & sure as sh!t the wheels started to come off lol


Pretty bad when we're that fragile of a team that superstitions must be heeded


- Kevin R

Lol!!
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