A Case of the Mondays/Game Day Links: On a Roll
by Hayley on Jan 3, 2011 2:57 PM PST
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PrintThe Flames pushed their winning streak to a season high four consecutive victories on Saturday night against the Oilers, and will look to further extend it tonight against the woeful Islanders (7PM MT, Sportsnet West), who currently occupy second-last place in the NHL. The team turned in a pathetic effort as the visitors at Nassau Coliseum towards the end of last season with a 3-2 loss in which Eric Nystrom and Nigel Dawes (remember them?) provided the only offence for the club against an Islanders team whose fate was already sealed.
The Islanders are in a similar position not even halfway through this season. Sitting at eight games under .500 with a goal differential of -34, their leading scorer 2009 first overall pick John Tavares is one of just two players on the team in double digits in goals, the other being Matt Moulson. Things have been looking up recently for the Long Island squad recently, as they've also gone 6-3-1 in their past ten games with a current two-game winning streak to their credit (in games against the Penguins and Red Wings, no less), but they're still a miserable 4-12-3 away from home, something that could work in the Flames' advantage tonight. The Flames have been winning recently, but have been doing so against less than stellar teams, sot they'll have to be sure to not to take this Islanders team coming in on a roll lightly.
Links after the jump.
Arik bids farewell to Darryl Sutter with a heartfelt Dear John letter [The 4th Line Blog]
Cassie Campbell's thoughts on the prominence of Ryan Kesler and the Winter Classic [CBC Sports]
The good, bad, and generally unexpected half way through the 2010-11 season [From the Rink]
The Puck Daddy staff look into their crystal balls and prognosticate about the 2011 hockey year
Ryan Lambert and Chemmy of PPP fame get everyone fired up for tonight's WJHC semi-final between Canada and the U.S. [The Sleeping Giant]
More speculation about the circumstances leading up to Darryl Sutter's forced resignation reveals that the situation could be messier than originally thought, as the elder Sutter is reportedly not on speaking terms with Brent or interim GM Jay Feaster [CBC Sports]
The Philadelphia Flyers have placed Michael Leighton, who backstopped them to a berth in the Stanley Cup Final last season, on waivers [HotH]
Hockey history and the birth of line changes [Hockey Prospectus]
That's if for today everyone, have a great week and enjoy what should be an exciting night of hockey.
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Daz is such an asshole. It will be nice to shut up all the stupidly arrogant & execrable US fans. (love you Arik!)
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Go Canada! First blood to Hamilton. Looking at the stands is seems like we kept Buffalo after the war of 1812.
We felt bad for burning down the White House.
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by Justin Azevedo on Jan 3, 2011 4:49 PM PST up reply actions
Looks like a 80/20 split, but the Americans are silent.
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by Justin Azevedo on Jan 3, 2011 5:02 PM PST up reply actions
Maybe could have had the first one, but the second was all Canada.
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by Justin Azevedo on Jan 3, 2011 5:05 PM PST up reply actions
I look at that and seem to notice the words “British Army” and more specifically “British Irregulars”. Canada isn’t mentioned. Whoops. All the troops were shipped in from the, y’know, British Army. In Britain.
Also, the Prevost of Canada had to ask for help from Britain after the US Army sacked York. Hehe. York.
Whatever, even today, she’s STILL our queen. Its not like there weren’t some local Canadians bayoneting the odd Yank, especially in Niagara.
electoral college.
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by Justin Azevedo on Jan 3, 2011 5:54 PM PST up reply actions
True monarchy does, Canadian/British monarchy doesn’t. Canadian is just bizarre.
So is the US electoral college. Having spent a lifetime enduring American politics, it’s pretty hard to miss that the more things change, the more they stay the same. But that’s far too serious of a discussion for this thread. So I’d like to point out the absurdity of mounties.
This can’t be the way the US has been playing the entire tournament. Then again, they only beat the Swiss by one.
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In the bits of the Sweden game we saw, Canada looked awful.
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by Justin Azevedo on Jan 3, 2011 5:03 PM PST up reply actions
A WJHC GT leading into a flames GT? a new record for comments
although probably not as many drinking and food talk during the WJHC game
I’m having Subway and Milk.
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by Justin Azevedo on Jan 3, 2011 5:04 PM PST up reply actions
yeah. I was going to say-she has to drink the whole bottle with pursed lips and a scowl.
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by Justin Azevedo on Jan 3, 2011 5:06 PM PST up reply actions
And even then, anything that Sutter touches probably turns to vinegar. I really should be saving this for the Flames game.
by mike_H on Jan 3, 2011 5:07 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
you should have. rec’d.
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by Justin Azevedo on Jan 3, 2011 5:08 PM PST up reply actions
Grapes? No, that wine is made out of straw.
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by Justin Azevedo on Jan 3, 2011 5:07 PM PST up reply actions
If there was wine that tasted like steak, I would never put anything else in my body. I would also be dead at 22.
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by Justin Azevedo on Jan 3, 2011 5:13 PM PST up reply actions
Non. Sucer, America!
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by Justin Azevedo on Jan 3, 2011 5:15 PM PST up reply actions
indeed.
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by Justin Azevedo on Jan 3, 2011 5:22 PM PST up reply actions
At least there’s no point in watching “Flames This Week”. Apparently they taped it pre-Sutter firing. Too bad the discussion is irrelevant, I haven’t seen Jamie Macoun in a while.
lol. You think they could have recorded an extra segment talking about the resignation.
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by Justin Azevedo on Jan 3, 2011 5:25 PM PST up reply actions
I wish the US dude would have hit Cambell harder.
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by Justin Azevedo on Jan 3, 2011 5:32 PM PST up reply actions
WE SUCK SO MUCH.
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by Justin Azevedo on Jan 3, 2011 5:37 PM PST up reply actions
Better. Just stay real, like, “We’re only halfway through, anything Canada has gained they could still give up.” Remember Eberle when he won for us in the dying seconds?
With 5.4 seconds left, destiny panics.
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by Justin Azevedo on Jan 3, 2011 5:40 PM PST up reply actions
30 shots now
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by Justin Azevedo on Jan 3, 2011 5:46 PM PST up reply actions
The only dude who looks like he believes they aren’t already beaten is the goalie.. the rest of the Americans looks sort of shocked…
from twitter: “The Americans look so apathetic right now, I had to check that it wasn’t Election Day.”
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by Justin Azevedo on Jan 3, 2011 5:46 PM PST up reply actions
Very sleek. But- it won’t let me log in yet.
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by Justin Azevedo on Jan 3, 2011 6:00 PM PST up reply actions
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