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Backlund hooked on his 2nd shortie rush. Hanifin unfortunate to deflect it past Marjy going the other way.

Yeah he got him in the toffee chewers.

Huby back

JP elbowed Toffee pretty nice when he was falling. Gonna be one of them games, so oh well. Just go with it.

Typical bad call.

Good to see you back as well Carty. Hope all is getting better. Now all I have todo is put up with the McLove being handed out tonight. Sickening, really.

Markstrom confirmed in net. Not sure about the Stink. Campbell has been letting in a ton. Skinner has a better GAA and SA%. But this is an important game, so do ya go with the backup? What does that say to the starter?

Deedsy, my man. Missed your GDT's last year. Props to RocketDoc for taking the time to keep us in games last year. He was responsible for 99% of them. Go Flames Go.

The days of Gio's empty comments are done. Even without a C we are a better on ice led team. Not saying Gio wasn't good, just that the team wasn't 100% following him.

Not like we can do anything outside swapping in one F or one D. The extra D didn't exactly perform up to expectations when he got a game, so we are best leaving that for now. Rozie didn't have a great camp, but the biggest problem is he is first and foremost a C. If he could play wing, then he would have a better chance of getting in. We are kinda behind the 8 ball due to Kylington's status. Can't get LTIR relief. Then again, what good is LTIR relief if you don't go over the cap? I'm okay with the way we are managing cap right now. But. I would prefer we focus on using a top 9 player in the top 9. Rozie isn't getting better not playing. 4th line looks really good so far. Lewis is a 4th line player, but isn't playing as good as the 4th line. Coin flip whether Ruzie improves the 3rd line in place of Lewis. You lose Lewis' work ethic and PK ability, but you gain an offensive threat.

No change to Flames lines and pairings. Only really have one extra F and one extra D.

Lewis fills a hole in the roster, but there is no other RW available. If you swap Coleman to LW, then you could use Ruzie on LW. He's more of a C, so the fit is questionable. The bottom line is we have exactly one extra body on the roster. That doesn't give Sutter many options.

Good work Deedsy. I like the look of where we stand.

We can do it, since Kylington is using a non-roster spot. We have the cap. Like the age of the player, could grow on this team. At some point, we would need to waive a player. Bellows or Lewis the only ones I would risk.

Not that we need a change, but I would like to see Kadri and Lindholm swap for a game. Kadri has been a beast playing with Hubie and Toffoli on the PP. It might help get Lindholm going where he doesn't have to face the top lines in the D zone as much. Too me, that isn't the biggest problem with the lines. Lines 1 and 2 are fine and producing well overall. Line 4 is playing much better than last year. They are drawing penalties, getting scoring chances and not a black hole in the D zone. Backlund line is suffering a bit with Lewis there. Really, the only negative I can see. Lewis kinda kills the play on offense. Defensively, he's okay. Not sure if Ruzie would be an improvement or not.

Vegas won, so they leap the Flames. However, we have a better point% of 83.33% top Vegas' 75.0%. 3rd in the league in points, but 2nd in points%. With the win, the Flames have their franchise best start to a season.

If only they could get Hanifin scoring.... Killing my pool.

Weird. It's on all TV covered games. Only don't use them on ice level shots. Covers the local ads.

These digital boards are annoying. Cuts heads off players at times. Annoying how they run the strip when the puck is moving up the ice.

Solid kills.

Another chance at it.

He's looking like a keeper. LOL. He's tied with Matthews for goals? One point back of him total. LOL

Would need to see the replay on that one. Somehow Lindholm missed a tap in?

It looked really weird. Thought it was a shot pass. Looked like he was putting on net to have the goalie freeze it. Hard to tell.

Backlund tries for the 5 hole and Pens come back and score one.