So here we are awaiting game 82 of the long and arduous NHL season. The last several years this was generally the game where the coach would decide who to rest and who’s icetime would be handled appropriately as they prepared for the marathon that is the playoffs. Not this time and not this year. For a team that had very high expectations coming into the 2009-2010 season, this was a game to try and salvage some sort of pride in a group of guys that quite frankly, have been far from anything resembling a playoff team.
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Game Takes: Nucks Blast Flames
April 13th, 2010 | Posted in Game Takes | By: Darren Linn
Game Takes - Wild 2 Flames 1 (SO)
April 9th, 2010 | Posted in Game Takes | By: D'Arcy McGrath
The good news? The Flames waited as long as they could before bowing out of the playoff race, leaving Calgary fans with only one meaningless game on the schedule at full cost.
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Season Snuffed Out: Flames 1 - Sharks 2
April 6th, 2010 | Posted in Game Takes | By: Daniel Lemmon
The Calgary Flames found themselves in an ominous situation at the start of the game. Win tonight and they still have a thread of hope, but even so, the chances are minimal at best. Lose and you can pretty much close the book on the 2009-2010 season.
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Chicago 4 Calgary 1
April 4th, 2010 | Posted in Game Takes | By: Jason Parkin
Statistically, the numbers will tell you the Calgary Flames have a less than 25% chance at qualifying for the Stanley Cup playoffs.
What the statistics don’t factor in however, are a few important variables. Momentum - Calgary coming from 9 points back in just a couple weeks to even the standings as Colorado plummeted from a solid position. Experience - The much older and presumably wiser Calgary team, being able to stay cool under the pressure and not wilt away; see Avalanche. Confidence - goes hand in hand with momentum right now. And the final factor that no statistic will bring up…which team features Miikka Kiprusoff between the pipes?
Well, that just happens to be the Calgary Flames.
On this day however, Calgary couldn’t find the bounces and Kiprusoff couldn’t find the magic as the spirited Flames fell 4-1 to the Blackhawks.
Game Takes - Flames
April 2nd, 2010 | Posted in Game Takes | By: D'Arcy McGrath
So now they show up?
A great start in Washington, a solid two way effort against Phoenix, and then textbook road hockey to win a huge game in Denver tonight by a score of 2-1.
Has Brent Sutter suddenly gotten smarter? Can’t see that. Have the Flames finally understood the plight of their season? Yeah that seems more likely.
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