Poor Kipper
All that glorious, glorious work in the third period goes for nothing. Figures.
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In defense of Gary Bettman
Yeah we said it. We are going to defend Gary Bettman. So what? Wanna fight about it?
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GDFD No. 57: Honey, we’re home!
Welcome to the ninth Game Day Fire Drill, for this, Calgary’s 57th game of the season on Feb. 17, 2009.
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Canucks? Ugh
I hate playing the Vancouver Canucks. Partially because they’ve been an eminently hate-able team for a long time.
Read More →Questions that Need Answers: First Edition
We’re be trotting out a new weekly feature starting today. It will focus mostly on the NHL, but if there’s a sporting story big enough to be mentioned in the same breath as hockey, we might consider it.
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Love wins, hate baseball scores
Well I mean sure, the game was a total gong show and every defenseman on both teams acted like matadors for the oncoming opposition, but hey, a win’s a win. …Right?
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GDFD No. 56: A romantic dinner with Shane Doan
Welcome to the eighth Game Day Fire Drill, for this, Calgary’s 56th game of the season on Feb. 14, 2009.
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Lemons, lemonaide
Despite playing some lousy hockey in the prior two games, Flames have the chance to escape this 3 game sojourn with a 5 of a possible 6 points this evening. A good measure of the Flames “success” in California was had thanks to Miikka Kiprusoff, who looked something like the Vezina winner he once was….
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Wrap your head around this
You mean Kipper bailed his team out of a listless road game? AGAIN!? Well I never.
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CONTEST: Zany baseball promotions
I have always marveled at minor league baseball and the unique, zany, outlandish and absolute genius game promotions they dream up. And I want you guys to dream up some zany promotions as well, but we’ll get to that further down the post.
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GDFD No. 55: Run away! Run away!
Welcome to the seventh Game Day Fire Drill, for this, Calgary’s 55th game of the season on Feb. 12, 2009.
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Assessing the royal risk
Even if the Flames weren’t mediocre on the road and lousy at back-to-backs (they are and…they are), the Los Angeles Kings aren’t a guaranteed two points anymore. In fact, I consider them a burgeoning heavy-weight that is probably a season or two out from making noise in the league.
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