Good way to put that silly Boyd kerfuffle behind us it to focus on the fact that HOCKEY'S BACK BABY. Flames head into the Luongo's house tonight with the goal of winning their first season opener since Christ was a child.
The Canucks were the only team to go undefeated during the pre-season I think (meh) and have also had the Flames number for the last year or so (more relevant). They beat the tar out of Calgary last week, a game in which Luongo already looked in pre-season form and Kiprusoff played like he was trying to be cut. At the very least, the latter half of that equation will have to change if the Flames are to break the opening night jinx.
Anyways, here's the lines from practice this morning according to Inside the Flames:
Bertuzzi-Conroy-Iginla
Cammalleri-Langkow-Bourque
Glencross-Lombardi-Moss
Boyd(!)-Primeau-Roy
Regehr-Aucoin
Vandermeer-Sarich
Giordano-Phaneuf
Aucoin with Regehr? Conroy centering Iginla? Lombardi on the bloody third line again? All I can say is these better NOT be the combinations we see this evening. If Conroy skates more than 2 shifts with Jarome with Lombardi, Boyd and Langkow in the line-up, my head might a'splode.
As for Aucoin with Regehr - can you picture that duo taking on the Sedins? No? Me neither.
What we can expect to see from the Canucks - Sedins with Bernier, Demitra with Raymond and Pyatt and a whole lot of crap from Burrows, where ever he is in the line-up. Im sure they'll run that strangling game-plan to perfection against as well.
Kipper's play is making me nervous and the Flames stink at opening night. Still, it's good to be watching the real thing again.
PREDICTION - the curse continues. 5-2 Canucks with Iginla and Boyd (heh) scoring for the good guys.
Go Flames. Prove me wrong.
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Why is Boyd on the fourth line? Is this the dreaded Keenan 'veterans above all' preference on display, or just stupidity?
Im hoping it's a morning fake out and that the lines will be different come game time.
Easy way to get out of admitting that you're a freaking idiot for yesterday's post.
Sigh.
Whoever you are, I think yesterday's post was above your head. If you think my annoyance was exclusively about Boyd potentially not being available for tonight's game, then you're mistaken.
It was the culmination of missteps by this management team over the last couple of years, this summer in particular. Sutter pulled off his little jiggery pokery at the last minute, but his short-term solution of putting Warrener on LTIR is a poor one and potentially risky for this club. There were other, far more viable solutions open to this team ahead of putting Boyd on a plane and playing silly buggers with a CBA loop-hole.
The point of it all is: it shouldn't have come down to this. If you disgree then, fine. If you want to debate it in good faith, great. Otherwise, stow the name-calling and start your own blog titled "Everything Darryl Sutter does is A-okay by me!" Or: "It's not so bad once you get past the taste".
Easy way to get out of admitting that you're a freaking idiot for yesterday's post.
No offence man, but this is obviously far too sophisticated for you to understand.
Actually, I lied. I absolutely did mean to be offensive there.
randy jones out too. maybe philadelphia wants a crappy old d-man? (i would take mcclaren if i were holmgren tho)
Easy way to get out of admitting that you're a freaking idiot for yesterday's post.
Look, Darryl. Just cut the anonymous crap already.
5-2 Canucks? Oh I LOVE the way you think! I got the Nucks winning 4-3 in a shootout.
So I guess it will be me harassing YOU after tonight's game then?
One thing is for sure: it should be a fast-paced violent game. Can't wait!
Look, Darryl. Just cut the anonymous crap already.
Actually, that really, really does sound like something Darryl would say ... if I thought he know how to use a computer.
I've got 5-2 Canucks as well. The Canucks are remembering Luc Bourdon, so that means they have to win, right?
It would be just like them to blow it, though.
It's good to be watching hockey again boys. Let's get it on!
I do so know how to use a computer...errr... I mean.... shut up, Darryl is smrt
And by the way, is "Cancucks" in the post title deliberate or a typo?
If the latter: Ha Ha.
If the Former: Screw You!
Sigh. You're blowing smoke out your butt, dude. Anyone who REALLY knows what's going on is getting a good chuckle. Think you've got it all figured out, eh?! You're all just too sophisticated for likes of me, eh?! I am belly laughing and so are a lot of others.
ooooooh Burrows! Bourdon's best friend! I can hardly type through the tears in my eyes, and the wet laptop keys. Waaaah!
i would like to make sweet love to that rypien goal, it was so pretty.
I think Alex burrows is the most underrated player eveh!
Dammit Kent, people are LAUGHING! How dare you think about hockey in a sophisticated way? Become an automaton like the crowd, and all will be well. (Plus, as a bonus, you won't have to analyze 6-0 losses!)
Sigh. You're blowing smoke out your butt, dude. Anyone who REALLY knows what's going on is getting a good chuckle. Think you've got it all figured out, eh?! You're all just too sophisticated for likes of me, eh?! I am belly laughing and so are a lot of others.
Hhow could I ever be too sophisticated for YOU? With your ad hominem attacks, name-calling, lack of any real substance in argument or fact?
Here's what you can do in the future, if you desire anyone around here to take you seriously: come up with a name and offer some sort of substance to the discussion. I never claimed to have it all figured out. But you've offered nothing to the discussion besides misplaced derision and fallacies.
So, anonymous...why dont you tell us what's REALLY GOING ON?
I am belly laughing and so are a lot of others.
OK i'll bite. Who the fuck are you?
As for you scurvy Vancouver knaves...
curse you! And yes, the typo in the title was purposeful...really...
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