The 2009-10 NHL season has not gone as planned in Calgary.
Big off season acquisitions of a stud defenseman and a can’t miss coach fired a cannon across the bow of Western Conference contenders that the deep on paper Flames would be a club to keep an eye on not only for the Northwest title, but also the top seed out West.
Quite clearly nothing has worked out.
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I’ve never been a home team general manager sycophant, nor have I gone out of my way to be overtly critical. I do believe that the arm chair and passionate hockey fan rarely, if ever has ever known more than those inside the team.
Some days test these theories. They don’t break said theories, but the bend them like a plastic Frostie spoon from Wendy’s and make you think twice about the direction of the hockey club. – Full Article –
There are trades you love the second you hear about them … “The Flames got all that for him!?”
There are trades that have you wondering about the winner, with good parts moving in two directions leaving fans from both cities claiming victory, and only time left to sort out the details.
Then there is the head scratcher. The deal that just doesn’t make sense … case in point tonight when the Flames and Rangers completed a 24 hour odyssey by sending Olli Jokinen and Brandon Prust to Gotham for Ales Kotalik and Chris Higgins.
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It took three years, but the Calgary Flames have finally put the scalpel in the right place.
Something has been wrong ever since the Flames hit the ice on an April night in 2006 and laid a Saddledome sized egg in a game seven against the Anaheim Mighty Ducks. The team lacked fortitude and gumption that night. They couldn’t alleviate the jitters and seize control of a very big hockey game on home ice, the venue that they should control. The fans saw it. Darryl Sutter saw it. The hockey world saw it. There was something wrong in Calgary. – Full Article –
Its been one month post-Christmas, and its safe to say that most of the Flames wish they could return many of the results achieved since that point, with ones that fit better. A tough stretch of 6 games since one of their best of the season against Vancouver two and a half weeks ago, and an agonizing 3 days off listening to their share of both constructive criticism, and ridiculous, baseless speculation and trade talk.
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