Hawgstoppah

If you wanna drink and watch the flames win, you better stick in a VCR tape by the looks of it tonight. Looks like the refs are up to there old tricks, and now the flames are afraid to hit a fly becuase they know the arms gonna go up as soon as they do as usual. Might I suggest something from '04?

First period - flames dominate - score 2 to 0 - reffing is fair end of first - flames get a b.s call against them. If that's interference then all players on both sides should be in the box, all game. Just a total garbage call, the same as all the calls when the flames do start owning a game, that are made, to get the other team back into the game. Second period - flames again chicken to do anything becuase of a bad call - hawks SCORE on that power play they got from the BS call at end of first - flames afraid to hit or make contact in 2nd - score 3-2 hawks after two. For those that say it has nothing to do with bad calls and shitty reffing.... Puuuhleeease... Congrats refs... errr I mean hawks. Great work so far. and come on flames, battle through this in the third.

didn't you post some of these last year too? I'm sure you did. Very cool stuff... I love watching birds fly. Cant find any youtube vids of whiffling.

Holy crap ya old geezer... the big four - OH... 40! Hope you were able to get outta fort mac and maybe spend some time at a favorite fishing spot or two!

Hah... no I said if the reffing is going to be the same there's no sense. I dont care how good a team is, when they get screwed by the refs each and every game it gets mentally tough... there plain worn out and scared from it and that's how there playing. will I be watching tonight? Of course I will... A truly great championship team HAS to battle through reffing to win. Need to see that from the flames.

Carp are awesome. I hit one while nymphing the portneuf (near Pocatello, ID) last year. Huge beasts. I never did land it as I had my 3wt for trout fishing, but the thing was about 40lbs or more... and I base that guess on having caught a 40lb fish just a few weeks before that trip on the Port. Carp would be really fun to target, what do they eat, grass?

I tend to watch with a very objective eye. On both sides. I am pretty vocal about calgary getting screwed every game... I dont have to go haul in the season stats of the flames getting less PP than the other team does about 80% of games now do I? It's not coincedence. Some one or something has the refs against this team. Having said that... our PP sucks, and cammi should be gone for a game. Now that's not whining, it's the facts. If cammi doesnt get a suspension, I guess all is about even (kipper being run over and all)... if cammi's gone and the hawks get to roam free and crash into kipper while scoring game winning OT goals... then it's the usual flames postseason. See ya next year. No sense in even watching game two.

every time the flames respond they get sent to the box while the other team does as it pleases. Been a trend all year, why should it change now? Maybe the guys are scared to hit becuase when they do they get f****d by the refs?

whining with a actual cuase is justified. Different year, same pile of absolute f**kin garbage reffing. I bet cammaleri will get a game for his act, while the guy who punched oli in the head wont get mentioned again,,,, ever. And, wtf? TWO of chicago's goals the result of a blatant NON call... the first one our guy gets hauled down on a scoring chance in the hawks end and they come back get the puck in go cycle and score goal #2 to tie it. the second one, in OT... come on. what the hell??? The guy wasnt run into kipper he backed into kipper... I guess what pisses me off is why wasnt keenan out there raising absolute hell?? I didnt see the postgame but if keenan isnt facing a stiff fine for foul language and criticizing the refs... i *WILL* be dissapointed in him.

"Bloody fantastic"!!!!!

Maybe it was an attempted suicide?

All I am gonna say about last night is that McElhinney played great last night. The same shots and same types of plays that have getting PAST kipper, were stopped last night. Enough said. Here's hoping they start McElhinney against the hawks the second Kipper looks sub-par, as he has done all year. Don't try and defend him please... the TEAM has looked good becuase they've scored a lot and it's been covering up our bad goaltending... but I ask you one thing... how many 2-1 or 1-0 games have we won this year? And how many 2-1 or 1-0 games did we win on our way to the cup finals in 2004?

before Kipper got a fat paycheck he made these saves. The defence hasn't changed that much. every night we get out GOALTENDED, not outplayed. Period.... and again tonight.... though that was a totally infuriating game to watch becuase the whole team was sucking bad. ever since the trade the chemistry has been gone. Cammi is wondering where he's gona fit in, Leopold just plain sucks... sorry but... wtf were they thinking getting rid of Lombardi our fastest skater and biggest threat to bust a breakway on the PK... now the other teams are closing in and preying off of us on their PP. BAAAAD TRADE. I said I'd give a few weeks before I decided, and that I was on the fence about the trade. I'll say it now... it's ruined the team concept the flames were slamming the opponents with up until a month ago. and before you slam me....Whats the record since this trade? O... yea... um.... brutal...

Thanks guys. I'll be coming to calgary for the whole week after easter sunday... would love to get out on that there river with any of ya! (but I'll need a ride... I'll pay for gas!)

LMFAO... ya think he's that old man? Happy B-day

Doesnt matter who the frick we play if we outshoot a team 45+ to under 25 and lose..... :$*%&: :$*%&: :$*%&: :$*%&: :$*%&: we need some damn goaltending!!

walker. I may be going through the same thing with an injury at work. Is all the above (CT scan, MRI, etc) coming up negative and there saying your fine, yet your unable to do daily things and a day on the river is about as close to hell as it is to heaven? If so we are in the same boat man. Ive been a mole at home since dec 10 when I hurt my back. managed to get to the crow a couple weeks back and I think I am still suffering from it..... getting so tired of this daily hell..

awww man I meant to hit A and then ... this horrible lag happened.... yeah that's it.... um... lag, yeah and when it cleared I had voted for B... rofl

LOL love the sucker shots...

LMFAO yes it does "BLOW" ask clive and his posse' LOLOL

Just goes to show you can have a "marginal" team with GREAT goaltending, and do well, or a very good team, with shoddy goaltending that's not ther when you need it, and falter (flames). This should be an interesting end to the season. I kinda hope we dont play eachother in the first round... I want canadian teams to go far.

rofl. been there done that. house doors look so tough yet are sooOOooOoo very fragile

As I sit in my office lookin at the 2+ feet of snow in my backyard... I must now also too, join the club and call ya a..... BASTARD!! Have fun..

Simple fact is, Kipper needs to make ONE more big save a night, instead of it finding the back of the net. then this team has a chance. right now, it doesn't.

Stockers that are 2yr old (in the lake for one winter) are really tasty I find. you gotta get them in about may before the water really heats up though. lakes like Paine, Beauvais, etc have some dang tasty fish. I cut sloce thru belly, empty guts leave the spine and rest of fish intact.. I cover with butter, stuff the insides with butter n lemon pepper, maybe some onion and garlic as well, then tin foil them up and BBQ them.... MMmMMMmm