There Will Be Blood, Saddledome edition
Jean Lefebvre
May 09 2009 09:31AM
What, a mere four straight first-round exits and the teeming thousands of Flames Nation (that’s Flames Nation in a more general sense of the term and not necessarily this site) are going all Henry VIII?
Todd-zilla says 'Sayonara'
Jean Lefebvre
April 29 2009 11:40PM
Even if you had good seats at the Saddledome that night, you might have missed it. After all, it happened at a meaningless moment in just another of the 82 marginally meaningful regular-season games. The play had come to a virtual standstill because the puck was in the neutral zone and both teams were making partial changes. Suddenly, the puck squibbed over to Todd Bertuzzi who decided to whip his stick across his body so that he could collect the rubber and dump it into the enemy zone wronghanded.
Hitting the rewind button
Jean Lefebvre
April 24 2009 09:02PM
Two things come to mind when contemplating the post-season performance of David Moss and Eric Nystrom, who have combined for five goals, seven points and 15 hits four games into the Flames’ Western Conference quarter-final series with the Chicago Blackhawks.
Bourque has bite
Jean Lefebvre
April 21 2009 08:05PM
In case you had forgotten while he was on the shelf for eight weeks or so, Rene Bourque is a pretty good gosh-darn hockey player. So good that he’s given Calgary a fighting chance in its playoff series against the Chicago Blackhawks even though a number of Flames big-name performers have made minimal contributions so far.
The Havlat and the have-nots
Jean Lefebvre
April 17 2009 09:38PM
Let’s start off by heaping a little praise on deserving parties.
