Who’s fault is it if a team’s not prepared for games? The captain? The coach? The players? There are no answers to this pathetic hockey team. Either the Flames are really THIS bad, or they don’t really care to show up to games.
Coming into tonight’s contest they were only four points out of 8th. Really, it’s not THAT huge. But you have to win games to make up points. The Flames had 12 shots through two periods. Sure they turned it on in the third, but HOCKEY is a game of SIXTY minutes. Duh.
The schedule right now is perhaps the easiest for the rest of the year. If the Flames don’t make hay then pack it in (well, maybe it’s already done)…..
Calgary really had no business being in the game. Kipper absolutely stole the show in the first period, and the Flames got tons of lucky bounces in the second.
All in all, a terrible game, which is to be expected from this hot and cold club. Hot and cold leads to one thing: an early end to the season.
PS Drew Doughty is a great hockey player, but when you embellish penalties you embarrass yourself and the game. Shame.
Well said! Apparently, it seems that the Flames really don’t care about being in professional hockey club and are playing for the sake of playing only….there is no inspiration whatsoever to maintain their profile or their fan’s respect.
Of note, the team’s performance during the first two periods was excellent despite the fact that they were down by a goal…. but as indicated hockey is a 60 minute game and players seem to forget this fact….More importantly, although the team is aware that penalties have devastating ramifications, no one seems to shy away from being penalized. Luckily, the Flames were able to kill almost all the penalties, but is it really fair for the rest of the team members to kill one penalty after the other? Or is this just a deliberate effort to lose games?
Subsequently, even though Mikka’s netminding had been magnificient, it is my conviction that after the victory against Tampa Bay, Karlsson should have been assigned the netminding responsibility because he would have been inspired to sustain the winning streak while Mikka should have played against the Ducks… Does this fact never get registered???.