Heartbreaker

Agreed. Smuggling cocaine in your underpants (Bob Probert)? No problem. Vehicular homicide? Maybe. Rape? Get the Blockchain outta here. Love.

A little devastated to miss this game tonight, but I'll be watching for sure as they float 34 to the rafters. Since I'll be around other people that I'll see again, hopefully I keep it together a little bit better than I did for 12. It's so hard to look cool. Love.

Ahh, yes. Joe Colborne. One day he'll get the call! Love.

I'm so excited that they're retiring his jersey... but I can't figure out why it'd be against the Penguins. Watching those clips, it seems like you'd want to do it against Vancouver, Detroit, or San Jose. Maybe the schedule didn't work out for a Saturday home game. In any case, I'm really happy for him! Love.

I appreciate that, Buddy. It's been a couple of days, and I've been starved for attention! I'll make it worth your while... Hey JJ, when is a door no longer a door? ... ... ... When it's ajar. Love.

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I think that another class of player that the Flames have historically done well with is the reclamation project. Players that have a ton of potential, but aren't reaching it on their former team for any number of reasons. To be clear, the Flames lose a lot of these players as well, but a few success stories might include players like Kristian Huselius, Jiri Hudler, Rene Bourque, and even Elias Lindholm. None of these guys are among the elite in the league, but they were all great Flames. This doesn't always work, though—James Neal, Ales Kotalik, I'm looking at you. Love.

In the conference final, I would cheer for the rare double-elimination. Love.

That's nice... but when the season's on the line, you're gonna want the puck on the stick of thick-dick-Nick Ritchie! Love.

I was listening to Steinberg yesterday when they were comin' at us from the Purple Haberdashers Seafood Emporium and Wing Shack, and I was thinking the same thing. There is a helluva lotta defensive responsibility that's about to fall on Yegor Sharangovich. Love.

Perhaps... but it sounds like we may have lost a rapist. I'm with you on Monohan, but let's just take the L on 29. Love.

And then the Blackhawks won the most consequential draft lottery since McDavid... but Arizona lost their pick for conducting illegal pre-draft testing. A false equivalency, perhaps, but that's one of those things that I can't get stoked about. Love.

There it is. https://www.tsn.ca/sources-confirm-nhl-players-facing-charges-in-sexual-assault-investigation-1.2069570 No Blockchaining love.

The good news for Oilers fans is that with the Globe and Mail reporting that five NHL players have to report to London to face charges, there will be five good players available that the Oilers can sign without giving up any assets! Love.

I'm just going to 'Like' this, and then unlike it, so that I can 'Like' it again for the next little while. Love.

This is starting to smell a whole lot like smoke. Love.

Ha! That's the sort of language that'll get ya kicked off the board, Bahd! Love.

Don't tell JJ, but we might need to focus our drafting on LW. Love.

This rookie Connor competition remindes me of that '88-'89 Flames team with two small differences: They were named Joe, and they weren't rookies They both played for the Flames Love.

I'm happy with that. I was getting pretty frustrated with that power play. A whole lotta possession, but not shots. Love.

How are you feeling about the power play? Love.

One thing that I have noticed about hockey in the past few years is that in the defensive zone, there is still some relevance here, but when you're on offence, I hear a lot less about the role of specific forwards. It's pretty fluid, and they're F1, F2, and F3. These guys are all professionals, and they certainly know better than I do, but I think that's where it could be confusing. If you're tracking F2, for example, and you're used to playing Zone defence, you might lose your cover. Alternatively, if you're playing man-to-man, you could leave gaps. It's just an evolution of the game that makes it faster, and gives forwards an opportunity to be creative, and evade coverage. I think it's pretty cool! Love.

You'll be shocked to learn that I don't make these decisions, but if I did, I'd play Coronato in tonight. Love.

Looks like Steinberg's gonna get an earful when he's comin' at ya from the Big Boys of Colorado Downtown Basement Studios. Love.

Man, Andersson's gotta shoot that. Love.