PREDICTION TIME

hey guys thanks 4 you're patience over the past couple years with the slow pace around here. but im back in the saddle and so are alberta's team, teh CALGARY FLAMES!!! i truly believe that the falmes are going to utterly dominate this year. they have, truly, the sickest D in the west, the best forward in the west (iggy!), and one of (if not THE) best goalies in the conference in kipper. this is a lineup with stanley cup dust sprinkled all over it, from iggs all the way down to diamonds in the rough like prust.

Player	GP	G	A	PTS	+/-
Iginla, Jarome	82	58	49	107	31
Jokinen, Olli	77	31	39	70	24
Bouwmeester, Jay	82	20	42	62	18
Conroy, Craig	82	17	42	59	21
Bourque, Rene	72	30	28	58	23
Langkow, Daymond	81	27	31	58	18
Phaneuf, Dion	82	23	32	55	16
Glencross, Curtis	71	20	29	49	17
Moss, David	82	24	19	43	9
Kronwall, Staffan	82	14	23	37	10
Boyd, Dustin	82	18	12	30	6
Giordano, Mark	70	5	24	29	11
Sarich, Cory	80	4	24	28	13
Sjostrom, Fredrik	82	14	12	26	8
Dawes, Nigel	59	13	12	25	6
Nystrom, Eric	80	11	13	24	11
Pardy, Adam	62	3	15	18	-3
Regehr, Robyn	78	4	14	18	4
Jaffray, Jason	43	7	9	16	-7
McGrattan, Brian	49	6	8	14	-2
Prust, Brandon	31	3	2	5	-5

and since i can, i decided to have some fun and predict the year 4 the DEADMONTON COILERS, too.

Player	GP	G	A	P	+/-
Ales Hemsky	63	18	36	54	-6
Patrick O'Sullivan	81	18	32	50	-1
Tom Gilbert	82	6	42	48	3
Dustin Penner	73	21	22	43	-3
Shawn Horcoff	56	16	24	40	-1
Sheldon Souray	58	16	23	39	-12
Denis Grebeshkov	68	6	33	39	6
Jean-Francois Jacques	82	13	24	37	-11
Andrew Cogliano	82	19	17	36	-9
Lubomir Visnovsky	61	8	26	34	7
Mike Comrie	72	19	15	34	-12
Sam Gagner	76	12	21	33	-13
Ethan Moreau	46	9	13	22	-7
Ryan Stone	80	10	10	20	-9
Zack Stortini	74	8	8	16	-5
Gilbert Brule	69	7	6	13	-19
Steve Staios	76	1	9	10	-9
Ladislav Smid	64	0	9	9	-6
Jason Strudwick	75	1	6	7	-10
Theo Peckham	22	1	6	7	-3
Marc Pouliot	9	1	2	3	-2
Robert Nilsson	9	1	1	2	-3
Steve MacIntyre	20	0	1	1	-9
Taylor Chorney	6	0	1	1	-2
Fernando Pisani	0	0	0	0	0
Ryan Potulny	3	0	0	0	1

the coil actually have a few nice players, but they're A) overpaid and B) paired with a bunch of AHL-types. its amazing that this is a cap team. gonna be another ugly year for Stabmonton.

Follow me on tweeter!

hey all i know its been over a year but im going to be back this season, posting at a relaxced pace about the flames (and well lets be honest the coil too LOL) when i find the time. please feel free to follow me on tweeter. i just heard about this site a few weeks ago (though ive heard ppl on the bus talk about "tweets" for a while) and am eagar to share my thoughts with u in a quiker, easier way. but dont worry, i'm not giving up on F4F proper!!!

he chose... wisely

the choice for jaromr jagr, a world-class hockey player looking for a world class city to play in, was clear.

STABmonton:


or Omsk:


he chose... wisely.

teh grail knight says: "LOL @ COILERS"

flames game day

well, the stats don't reflect how good of a team the flames are so far. while currently were ranked second last in the league (even worse than the hated deadmonton coilers), we did so against impossibly tough competition and only three games to test ourselves so far.

but what does the test REALLY tell us? answer: that the flames are passing with flying colors so far. in all three games, the better team (thats the flames, fyi) lost while posting better efforts than the opposition. each and every player is pulling their weights on the team. they just have to learn to play as a collective, not as individuals trying hard. once that happens, the flames will dominate--and all signs are pointing to that happening tonight against teh laughable dallas stars.

Prediction time: Mike Keenan will guide our boys to a stunning 4-2 victory over the stars tonight. Goals for Phaneuf (3) and Huselius. Stars sham goals for Hagman and Zubov.

meanwhile, the walls continue to crumble in on the COILERS, as it becomes more and more obvious that not only has there team NOT improved over last season, theyve actually gotten WORSE by stacking themselves with do-nothing rookies (gagner, nilson, brodziak) who will likely get demoted to the AHL and OHL or traded for a third-tier player or two who can eat up those tough minutes for the coil. seriously, i have never seen a more hapless team in my life. sheldon "minus thirty" souray QBing the power play? LOL get real coilers. u guys are out of your league and out of your minds.

Prediction time: COILERS take a devastating 6-1 drubbing at the hands of the Vancouver canuckleheads tonight. i'd say "expect some heads to roll", but its quite clear that nobody at the EIG will fire anyone for anything if no one was held accountable for last seasons disaster. poor pitiful COILERS

jarret stoll: 2nd line yesterday, 4th line today, waivers tomorrow?

so the coilers have done just as i suspected: they're playing with the chemistry set and demoting jarret stoll, once considered a legitamite player but whose now pointless during the entire preseason and regular season, to the FOURTH line.

so get this: macT, obviously pissed with stoll, is demoting him to serving alongside the likes of Jean luc picard francois jacques and Samwise Gagner, two kids drowning in the deepend.

is stoll being demoted to the line of 4th line garbage minute players for good? will he ever score more than 10 goals in a season again? if i were him, id be very worried that stacey's mom is going to find someone a little less washed up.

Flames and Coilers game day preview

yeah, you dont need to adjust your watches... i know that it's not ACTUALLY game day tonite, but i wanted to get a head start.

two HUGE games tomorrow, with calgary taking on detroit, and the deadmonton coilers limping into minnesota.

while the flames have gotten off to a slow start, theyre just beginning to find there sea legs under the visionary leadership of mike keenan. when i used to play midget hockey, our coach would always tell us about peaking: as in, u dont want 2 blow your wad too early in the game (at least thats what i think he said), or the season for that matter. the flames are on slow burn right now, with the heat increasing from the embers into a slow burn... gradually enlarging into a raging hockey powerhouse inferno. with the early bugs out of the system and the players getting used to the new coach (and the coach getting used to the new players), the flames will do what the COIL cannot and will not do this season: utterly destroy the detroit red wings in a 6-2 win for the flames. Flames goals for Conroy, Lombardi (2), Iginla, Sarich, and Huselius. for detroit, chelios x 2 (hey, miracles can happen).

meanwhile, the COIL are limping into minnesota demoralized and dejected after a punishing loss (which i called btw). with macT putting his lines into the blender and calling up some extremely questionable rookies (Jean Luc Goddard Francois Jacques), and a D suffering the disastrous loss of tarnstrom (who looks to be gone for another week with a charlie horse), the coil will come home in tears after a laughable 4-1 loss to the trap-wielding Wild. MN goals for bouchard, belanger, rolston (2). Coilers goal gets credited to Pouliot after a Wild Dman accidentally sends a clearing attempt into the backskate of backstrom.

GO FLAMES!

coilers postgame review

so once again i called it, as the coilers suffered a devastating loss to the detroit red wings last night. this ABYSMALL performance is the opening salvo in a series of savage losses to come for the COIL. (in fact, were it not for a dirty play by the cogliano line and the saving grace of the crossbar, the game would have easily been a 6-1 blowout)

the coilers have gotten lucky and had a few lines who have been pulling more than they weigh, but last night's embarrassing loss to the creaky wings came YET AGAIN with no points from the highly touted stoll/nilson/torres line.

so cue the blender for mact, who doesnt know how to leave well enough alone. all 4 lines are going to be mixed up thoroughly (hence the totally ridiculous call up of Jean "Luc" Francois Jacques--a guy who is TOTALLY POINTLESS in like 40 NHL games)

while the loss of two points is like a splash of vineagar in the coils face, the real disaster is that the chemistry that has given them some early fluke success will be permanently altered for the rest of the season because of stoll/torres/nilsons failure to convert.

id hate to be in the rexall lab while professor mactavish starts playing with his parker bros chemistry set again.

if things are getting ugly for the coil right now, u dont want to see how low the ship will sink by the end of the month.

TEAM OVERBOARD!

GO FLAMES!