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Lumber is up 250%, steel maybe the same. Tack that onto a billion dollar project and..................well lets pause a minute, or maybe forever.

BT is not going anywhere, nor should he. FA’s have been getting over paid across every sports league since the beginning of time, nothing new there. SB is going to FLO to be SB. He will never live up to his 4OA selection. Thank goodness BT resisted signing SB long term when other teams were giving out 6x6 to kids like bags of candy. SB and Lomberg are going to rip it up, yeah! I do wish the best for SB though. The Flames should be getting credit for nurtured him into the man he is today. But no, we want to talk about over paying FA's.

Writing was on the wall for Sam a long time. He left the org saying nothing but good things about it, the org had nothing but good things to say publicly about Sam. The split couldn't have gone better. Full marks to both sides for taking the high road on this one and looking like a professionals. Flames got a nice return. Sam gets an opportunity elsewhere. My advice to Sam would be to leave his gloves on until after he gets a new contract. The last thing FLO needs is Sam gone with a broker finger, minus 2 second round picks and nothing to show for it.

Most of the ingrediencies are there with the exception of the lottery pick spice. EDM and TO seen to have found the rare spice but they had to loiter outside the food bank for years on end. Maybe a little more marination with new chef may help. How is the chili in DET these days? I prefer ground beef in my chili and stewing beef in stew.

Hockey purists? You mean like Don Cherry? Obviously you missed the head lines about 2 pros capable of making appropriate decisions, hence the topic. And you completely missed the point of having responsible refs police their zone, and not the outcome of the game. Nobody mentioned backrooms or basements, pretty sure the suggestion was along the glass or similar with best view and cutting edge tech to support. When a captain skates over to talk to a ref have you ever him return satisfied or call over turned? I haven’t, so what is the point of skating over there? If you like the imperfect game so much then bite your lip about “being so sick of changing standards in a game or from one game to the next”. More eyes on the game, making the best decisions in real time was the suggestion while removing two obstacles on the ice.

That's what I meant about the red and green lights. If red light appears around the perimeter of the glass then it is a delayed call on the visiting team. If a green light appears its going against the home team. Colors are just an example. No more looking back to see if ref has an arm up and no more guessing which team he is calling. There are 3 zones on the ice. One ref responsible for each zone, he calls everything in his zone only. One ref for each net, he calls everything related to the goalie plus evaluates all goals. That is 5 nameless and faceless refs, with every technical tool and camera angle at their disposal. Spot light shines down on where face off will occur after each play. Not saying this is bullet proof but a possible means of removing 2 skating officials from the ice who can determine the outcome of a game.

Maybe it is time to remove the two referees from the ice entirely. Leave the linesmen out there to continue to do their job. With all the camera's and camera angles in the building today refereeing could be done from the rafters or along the glass. You could have multiple referees per games responsible for certain areas of the ice. If a ref see's an infraction he could signal to the entire arena by way of whistle over loud speaker if the play is dead or in the case of a delayed call illuminate lights around perimeter of glass, green light is home team, red light is visiting team so players know which side is being called. When the play is dead an announcement is made. Penalized player leaves the ice. No more arguing with the ref.

Maybe the expectations for MT are too high for some. You bench players for not pulling on the "team" rope. MT does his fair share of pulling. MT is tied for 2nd on the team for total points. He has 5 pts in last 5 games and is a +5 over the same period. Not sure why we would consider benching such player and embarrassing him in front of bro and family, while damaging his relationship with the team. If it's the MT shenanigan's you miss, we can save that for playoff hockey because it is not sustainable throughout the season. I think MT is fine.

If OTT takes another 2 pts from us you would look like a genius.

BUF is not trading Eichel Ditto You can dipsey doddle in the neutral zone, lose possession, allowing odd man rushes against you, or you can choose the safe play and dump the puck behind their D and forecheck hard, creating turnovers in the ozone. I think Dutter likes the later.

For a RHS RW ? SM would not have 200+ goals without JG and JG would not have hit 90pts without SM, they complement one another for the most part.

Maybe after the facepalms are lowered, JG and SM can look in the mirror to find a solution to their game. Sounds similar to the SB excesses we have been hearing for years, no one to play with....rubbish.

Yeah, I'm not moving Richie either. He has been noticeable in the line-up (in good ways) since given the opportunity to play a few weeks back. He can skate, he is physical and he can finish. Gotta think he is one of Darryl's favs atm, lets hope he can keep it up.

Versteeg is a great analyst, I think he understands the game very well. He may even make a great coach one day if he so chooses. Versteeg has mentioned some of the things we have been complaining about, like the drop back pass, which is the only play in our book, the puck carrier has an opening into the ozone but instead chooses to drop the puck back to JH who now has to beat all the defenders a second time, huh? Sure the play has a high rate of success but mix it up would ya! Let’s increase our success. Or our PK that sits back in a box and continually shrinks it down until our goal light comes on. No legs. Or our PP, playing on the outside along the boards because that’s all we can muster most times. No legs. The first one is just poor coaching. The second two comes down to just being out worked on specialty teams. We changed the coach and he doesn’t tolerate being out worked so we should see an improvement in those three areas.

First of all, we need to change the title of this thread to "Darryl Sutter new head coach", and give Snowbear credit for starting it. Second, No management does not follow what is said on these boards then react to it as some allure to. Third, wish JW all the best, I think he is a good hockey man that would have sorted this out. Fourth, I immediately smiled when I read the news. Fifth, get used to 1-0 games, win or lose. Sixth, everyone starts with a new slate, bring it or be gone. Seventh, BT just hired his last coach.

Would it have made you happier if he had said "I want a soft team, soft to play against, non-physical, loose-checking and have unskilled players so as not to generate offense."?? Would you have been happier with BT if he said that?

I'll support the rebuild when its time. Now is not the time. Now is the time to get the season on track with all the pieces we presently have in place.

You're 19 games early. What happened there? Simply pointing out that people have opinions, and that one sounded a lot like JF, whom no one seemed to like around here. Retools happen every year, that's nothing new. Who you are using to retool with is another story. The offense his died off the last 6 games, relax everyone. I have more patience than that, maybe its 7 games maybe its more, I'll give this team till TDL then I make decisions on every member of this team.

Everyone has a right to an opinion. Taking a page out of the Jay Feaster handbook is certainly an option.

You mean like Bennett for Janko??

Pretty sure you can’t have both sides. For me, I thought Byron got away too early but I now forget the situation as to why he was put on waivers.

There is zero chance of it happening but if another team claimed Neil it would be a problem the Coilers would accept every day of the week over the next 3 years. Second best scenario is taxi squad. Please, please nobody claim him.

Yes the bump-back pass is predictable and it's sometimes painful to watch especially when Gio does it because that's all he has, but it has a high percentage of success. I see Jeremy has a problem with players standing near still on the blueline but the first 3 video examples he shows were all successful offensive zone entries were they not? They lost the zone after gaining it and it had nothing to do with the bump-back. What you do with the puck after you gain the zone is a different story.

I like your passion as well. We are all here because we want our team to win. Your posts read much better with out the Blockchain in it, and I may have picked the wrong post last evening to address you about it. The game has certainly changed from back in our hay day. The league has shifted from big and strong to small and fast. The league has done their best to remove the physical element out of the game by handing out cheap penalties to those who want to slow the game down. Now we watch smaller faster guys that you can’t touch or step in front of, or you’re penalized. This is the new game, some of it I like, some of it I don’t. Maybe I’m a little more patient than you this season, its still early, we have played the stronger teams in our division thus far. We have added many new players which may need extra time to gel. I know it sounds like excuses but I think things will turn around for this team shortly.

Only 2 teams make it to the SC finals, they create an identity along the way. The other 28 teams have no identity according to your logic. Why does your identity only show up after a Flames loss? Never see you post anything except to drop a profanity based hammer on the team after every single loss. Maybe you should work on your identity?