No wonder the ‘Dome is 1/3 empty for home games, pathetic efforts like tonight.
The Flames have been relying on stalwart goaltending and their third line to get wins (special teams have been special as of late too).
But that’s it. After that, the system and coaching decisions are killing the team.
When they play teams struggling to enter the playoff picture they crap the bed. Zero effort, hardly any offensive zone production.
This team will be hammered tomorrow against Edmonton. They are a step behind, won’t go into the dirty areas to win, and have relied for months on poor Chiasson to play with an All-Star. No wonder lines 1, 2, 4, put up zero points, it’s an effort in futility. Without the Backlund line this team is probably 10 points behind where they are now. That’s a lot of points.
This 2017 Calgary Flames team is a complete DISGRACE!!! Just a bunch of lackadaisical bums who are disgusting to watch bumble around giving away points and wins to crappy teams night after night!!! If this is the best effort these LOSERS can muster against pathetic teams like the Jets and Devils please do EVERYONE a favour and just stay at home you USELESS, PATHETIC excuses for hockey players!!! This ENTIRE team is GUTLESS and has ZERO leadership. In summary the only players who are excluded are Chad Johnson and Micheal Backlund. Their Captain is NOT any kind of leader and is a complete joke like most of their overrated loser bum players who continually fail to do something as simple as playing to WIN the game in front on them. Sickening to watch these LOSERS throw away another season!!! Boooo………….
In response to your recent comment made on January 14, 2017, I truly appreciated your compliments about Mikael Backlund and Chad Johnson. Mikael’s offensive burst has been awesome and I was surprised that he had not been selected for the All Star game.
Simultaneously, I was also in agreement that the performance of the Calgary Flames had not been exceptional against the New Jersey Devils or the Jets but your reasoning is not sufficient to warrant abuse because the score was 2-1 and not 10-1. Relatively, I am not in consensus that the team is a complete “DISGRACE” as you put it because you have made a fundamental attribution error – essentially, that is what we usually do by assuming that other people’s behaviors are caused by internal dispositions. Hence, your opinion about the entire team has been startling because it makes me wonder whether you as an individual are completely flawless on a day to day basis?. In terms of leadership, Mark Giordano had been selected as the Flames Captain based on his merit – not by you or the public but by management and it is difficult to underline what the term zero leadership stands for particularly when he along with other veterans helped to bring the rebuilding team to where they are today. So, the question I ask today, is would you in his place would have been able to do what Mark Giordano has done? Would you rather accept his position and see if you can make this team into an elite one?
Consequently and in all honesty, the Flames forum is not meant to abuse the Calgary Flames; and if you dislike their performance, you are free to choose other elite teams whose performance is 100% to your liking.
It is only the truth. The Calgary Flames as a team should be ashamed of their pathetic efforts on most nights. This team rarely comes prepared to play from the opening face off to the final buzzer. As a group they have been disgusting to watch for the simple fact they do NOT show up to WIN games. They useless losers are giving away points night after night and change absolutely nothing every day going forward. Same LOSERS that lost back to back games to the over rated oilers to start the season then lose to the crappy Canucks, Jets, Devils, Islanders, and many other sub par teams because they just do NOT have ANY fight or will to WIN. A real SAD bunch of LOSERS wearing flames jerseys in 2017. Absolutely pathetic for the amount of talent that is on this team.