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The refs must hate BJ's. Very one sided in calls. Toronto made that call, but it was too close to overturn the call on the ice

A watched Bread does not rise.

Mangiapane can only score on the road. That is fine for now.

Good goal.

High stick

Backlund goal to open the scoring....

87% on the faceoffs? Like what? That is bizarre.

Sorry about the time mixup. Was showing 6pm when I read it

Oops, messed up the time. Started at 5pm MST

Oh dear, what have I done. The Flames season is dependent on me now. We are hooped. Hehe, take the night off.

GOALIES JACOB MARKSTROM DANIEL VLADAR GOALIES ELVIS MERZLIKINS JOONAS KORPISALO Expected goalie starting: Flames - Markstrom (not confirmed) BJ's - Elvis

BJ's projected lines and pairs: LW C RW PATRIK LAINE BOONE JENNER GUSTAV NYQUIST MAX DOMI COLE SILLINGER OLIVER BJORKSTRAND JAKUB VORACEK JACK ROSLOVIC ALEXANDRE TEXIER ERIC ROBINSON SEAN KURALY YEGOR CHINAKHOV DEFENSIVE PAIRINGS ZACH WERENSKI ANDREW PEEKE VLADISLAV GAVRIKOV DEAN KUKAN JAKE BEAN ADAM BOQVIST

I would normally just wait for Rocket Doc to post, but I thought I would give him a break. Already evening there across the pond. Flames projected lines and pairs: LW C RW JOHNNY GAUDREAU ELIAS LINDHOLM MATTHEW TKACHUK ANDREW MANGIAPANE MIKAEL BACKLUND BLAKE COLEMAN MILAN LUCIC SEAN MONAHAN DILLON DUBE TREVOR LEWIS ADAM RUZICKA BRETT RITCHIE DEFENSIVE PAIRINGS NOAH HANIFIN RASMUS ANDERSSON OLIVER KYLINGTON CHRIS TANEV NIKITA ZADOROV ERIK GUDBRANSON

They are a tire fire worth making fun of. Because they are what they are, in a 65 minute game, the top 2 played 27 minutes each. In 3 PP's, they each played 5:47. 5 players played 9 minutes or less. VAN's centers were unable to win draws. And the goalie EDM faced was playing his 2nd career game. This is a team built to lose in the playoffs. After a short season last year against just Canadian teams, they were cooked by the playoffs. Right now they are only 38 games into an 82 game season. Barely beating a non-playoff team with a 3rd string goalie is nothing to get excited about.

I noticed that every O zone play is design like they are on a PP. Get it to McD. Set up Drai. Point shots from D. RInce and repeat. Zone entries consist of McD gaining speed and trying to get a PP. Russell is the only player that understands what it takes to play D. Blicks shots. Gets in lanes. The PK isn't too bad, so learn from that.

Myers had a head scratcher. Has possession, throws the puck in deep with nobody even heading there. TBH, I wasn't sure if they were trying to win or go for the tie. They could use a player like Hanifin in OT. LOL As usual, a light check into the boards gives the Oilers their 3rd PP with VAN not even getting one. They kept the Oilers to the outside, but as you might expect, 3 minutes in a row of McD and Drai with no time for VAN to change, results in the tying goal. VAN was attacking Kostco exactly the way we were. Shoot low. The first goal was high glove. The shorty was 5 hole.

That's the part that bothers me. Oiler fans are insensed when someebody touches him and there isn't a penalty for being mauled. Louie and Jack are the worst for talking about that crap. The last playoffs, I thought the refs did a good job of not being fooled. He uses his edges so much that he is a taint away from falling most of the time. He's getting to the point of diving now. So desperate. Probably wouldn;t care about Kane coming in. Help to have SN fan boys and "insiders" carrying the water for the team. Fans don't even have consistent opinions anymore.

Spencer Martin. Has 1 game experience, beat the Fancy Cats. Demko and Halak both off sick, COVID for at least one of them. Martin just got back. I was watching the FLA game, but picked up the wrong feed thinking it was in FLA. Didn't see the Bennett thing, but I knew he was one away from tying it. Then mentioned it was his 18th.

The McDavid factor is the opposite of the Wideman factor. I thought it was a good defensive play myself. Refs are a joke these days. Obvious hacks and trips let go. Play a guy tough and you get a holding call. Picks ignored most of the time now.

They are signing new GM tomorrow. Never heard of the guy

Hint - I am scouting JT Miller

As much as I hate the VAN crew, they are less screaming idiots than Radio Jack and Forever an Oiler Louie.

Nowhere else to really post this. Rogers is a hoot. BOA, we get the Oilers broadcast crews in EDM or the CGY ones in CGY. When the Oilers play VAN, they have two broadcast crews on at the same time.

I don't think we need to convert forwards to D. We are not lacking LD prospects, but we are lacking C prospects. Zary is coming at his own pace. Doesn't play the same heavy games as Ruzicka. The rest are wingers in the AHL. Junior is too far out to include. I don't know Ruzie's skillset to know if he is capable of skating backwards at speed. He seems to be good North and South in Drive. Don't know about reverse. Right now, we need capable C's in the bottom 6, and if possible, able to step up in dire cases. Mackey and Valimaki are fine for depth right now.

Was calling it forecheck, but really it's on the cycle in the O-zone. Knowing when to go deep or cover the D-man. Knowing who your man is. With Hanifin out there, you have to really watch it. His goal was the result of his defensive play at the line and then transitioning to offense. It reminded me of the type of goals Lindholm can get. We will see if a tougher game brings this out in him more or he goes into defensive shell only. Have hopes, as he would be a win for this team's drafting. Building blocks for the team down the road.