How bad are the Calgary Flames?

[easyliving]

down 5-0 to the Blues at home and lost to the Coyotes 6-0 last game as well. Have now lost 6 out of last 7 as well.

[easyliving]

They have also failed to score a goal in 5/7 as well if tonight's score holds up. They are prime fade material at the moment.

[odog11]

They have also failed to score a goal in 5/7 as well if tonight's score holds up. They are prime fade material at the moment.

Yep, play the PL against them, this will make 6 of last 7 covered. It has been quite profitable doing that against the Oil as well.

[Giz]

Took them moneyline vs colorado few days ago, haven't touched them since...think it will stay that way

[lakerboy]

i took them tonight

[odog11]

Took them moneyline vs colorado few days ago, haven't touched them since...think it will stay that way

Penguins coming to the Saddledome Saturday night, could see a juiced PL here.

[Mike Huntertz]

Flameouts flatout stink!

[Deuce]

Team not horrible bad. Horrendous upper management and lack of defense. Only have a few scorers. Jiri Hulder is leading your team in goals you're in trouble.

Iginla and Kipper buried this team by leaving.

[Giz]

Might take them vs pens

[easyliving]

Penguins PL at +157 looks good

[DEUCED]

Lifelong flames fan homer here and I like pens-2.5. That's how bad they are.

[easyliving]

down 4-0 to Winnipeg at home. Best fade in the NHL right now.

[lunch]

Edmonton is worse

[aznbluff]

Calgary sucks. But they knew they would suck this year. They have no talent on the roster, just journeymen veterans. But they are professional hockey players and at least come out and give an honest effort every night. Even if you suck you can try hard and finish with ~65 points as a team at the end of the year. They have a solid developing player in Monahan and a potentially top 3 pick this year. They will learn to play the game the right way from these hardworking plugs with little talent but good work habits and professional experience. They should turn it around some time in the next 5 years.

Meanwhile Edmonton just sucks. It's an internal competition on the roster to see who can do the most toe-drags between Hall and Eberle. The loser pays the bar tab that night, so they are both going balls to the wall to up their toe-drags per game stat every game. Eberle had about 4 this game, while Hall tried one on Ryan Suter, who waved his big stick at him and rendered $6M Taylor Hall completely impotent for 20 straight minutes tonight.
Yakupov doesn't know how to play hockey and it's up for debate whether he will ever learn to do so. Stands still, gets crushed at the opposing blue line, no reaction from the team, odd man rush the other way and a goal against. Pure Oiler hockey right there. At times during the game tonight, you could hear Suter's thoughts through the TV; after Hall tried to dangle him you could hear him think "Holy fk you guys suck at hockey, wow" to which Hall and Eberle could only respond by putting their heads down and skating to the bench.

MacT seems to insist on giving up assets to add irrelevant pieces to the roster, while ignoring or being handcuffed to improve the parts of the team that matter. This team will not be good for as long as this core is still playing in the NHL. They actually don't know how to play NHL hockey and refuse to learn. Why should they? They have their $6M/year long term deals already and get fed prime ice time regardless of how badly they play.

Somehow, though, the icing on the cake is that as desperate as Edmonton is to get better and try to improve in the standings, while Calgary is literally selling off the team trying to suck more, Calgary is still somehow better than the Oilers. Just sad.

[sickler]

Team not horrible bad. Horrendous upper management and lack of defense. Only have a few scorers. Jiri Hulder is leading your team in goals you're in trouble.

Iginla and Kipper buried this team by leaving.

Pretty much

[Deuce]

Calgary sucks. But they knew they would suck this year. They have no talent on the roster, just journeymen veterans. But they are professional hockey players and at least come out and give an honest effort every night. Even if you suck you can try hard and finish with ~65 points as a team at the end of the year. They have a solid developing player in Monahan and a potentially top 3 pick this year. They will learn to play the game the right way from these hardworking plugs with little talent but good work habits and professional experience. They should turn it around some time in the next 5 years.

Meanwhile Edmonton just sucks. It's an internal competition on the roster to see who can do the most toe-drags between Hall and Eberle. The loser pays the bar tab that night, so they are both going balls to the wall to up their toe-drags per game stat every game. Eberle had about 4 this game, while Hall tried one on Ryan Suter, who waved his big stick at him and rendered $6M Taylor Hall completely impotent for 20 straight minutes tonight.
Yakupov doesn't know how to play hockey and it's up for debate whether he will ever learn to do so. Stands still, gets crushed at the opposing blue line, no reaction from the team, odd man rush the other way and a goal against. Pure Oiler hockey right there. At times during the game tonight, you could hear Suter's thoughts through the TV; after Hall tried to dangle him you could hear him think "Holy fk you guys suck at hockey, wow" to which Hall and Eberle could only respond by putting their heads down and skating to the bench.

MacT seems to insist on giving up assets to add irrelevant pieces to the roster, while ignoring or being handcuffed to improve the parts of the team that matter. This team will not be good for as long as this core is still playing in the NHL. They actually don't know how to play NHL hockey and refuse to learn. Why should they? They have their $6M/year long term deals already and get fed prime ice time regardless of how badly they play.

Somehow, though, the icing on the cake is that as desperate as Edmonton is to get better and try to improve in the standings, while Calgary is literally selling off the team trying to suck more, Calgary is still somehow better than the Oilers. Just sad.

Edmontons issue is they have ZERO goaltending and defense. Ankle benders and has beens. I don't know how Edmonton puts ass in the seats to be honest, horrid management.

[Vegas39]

Edmontons issue is they have ZERO goaltending and defense. Ankle benders and has beens. I don't know how Edmonton puts ass in the seats to be honest, horrid management.

no matter who is in net in trouble with that defense. They traded for Scrivens but his numbers this year were aided by LA defense

[aznbluff]

Most of Edmonton's problems are actually their top 6 FW, contrary to what the public thinks. Hall and Eberle and obviously Yak and Gagner (as well as Hemmer and Arco when healthy/in the top 6) are the problems with this team. Maybe one day management will wake up and smell the roses but probably not. They've already labeled 4/6 of those players as untradeable core pieces and hyped them to the media and casual fans as the future of the team.

The only thing fans can do is make money off the fact that the kids are incredibly overrated and 4/5 of them aren't even good players yet.

[Deuce]

Did Hall Ebs Yak Nug ever play minors? I know OHL CHL but I'm talking Oil Kings. I know they did in the lock out but I'm talking from draft day.

[aznbluff]

Ebs had 2 yrs of Junior and some AHL time

Oil Kings is CHL also

[Deuce]

Ebs had 2 yrs of Junior and some AHL time

Oil Kings is CHL also

My bad was thinking of the Barons.

[byronbb]

Calgary must blow hard if they are opening as a 213/-233 dog for saturday nights game vs the pathetic Canucks.

[easyliving]

4 straight wins after 4 straight losses. Another losing streak likely to start on saturday against the Wild

[bostonboss]

Calgary cant score. 2 nobodies for goaltenders. been to the saddledome once.....nice experience back in 2002

[Swaggy P]

4 straight wins after 4 straight losses. Another losing streak likely to start on saturday against the Wild

I agree. Perfect fade material for the next one at home and then three on the road