flames-post-season-review Stories - Matchsticks and Gasoline
Flames Season Review - Sutter
I struggled with the Sutter portion of my year end review because, frankly, I've gone over a lot of it before. At this point, five years into his reign as the Flames GM, Sutter's proclivities as a manager are scrawled in big, bold letter across the face of the organization. His cowbells are...
Flames Season Review - Keenan
Despite my noisey protestations about many of Keenan's moves this year, I'm actually fairly ambivalent about the guy: I think I can say firmly that the team looks better under him than Playfair, which means there are probably worse coaches out there. Keenan's in season adjustment after the Sharks...
Flames season review - the players (part 2)
I had a fear heading into this season that the Flames would lack high value contracts (ie; outperformers). I saw the raises to Kiprusoff, Regehr and Phaneuf, as well as the departure of Huselius, and lamented. That fear, it seems, was overblown. Or perhaps, misdirected: the team did...
Flames Season Review: the team (part 1)
I plan to break up my season review into a number of sections, because a single post would be overly long, rambling and tangential. In this, the first of two parts, I'll to look at the team - that is, the players on the ice - in isolation, before proceeding to coaching and...
Flames adjusted plus/minus
This will be another "pillar post" for this summer's on-going commentary. Anyways, Joanthan Willis did this for the Oilers roster a few weeks ago and it struck me as a worthwhile excercise. Adjusted (or corrected plus/minus) does two things: 1.) it excludes stupid stuff like short handed goals or...
Jarome Iginla: Bully
<!-- BEGIN WIDGET --> GP G A P +/- PIM PPG SHG GWG GTG SOG PCT 2008 - Jarome Iginla 82 35 54 89 -2 37 10 0 4 0 289 12.1 <!-- END WIDGET --> Before penning my season review, I plan to publish a number of "support posts" that will...
Post Mortem Open Thread
Im chewing on a lot of stuff in the aftermath of another first round exit, including the revelatory injury information the team has come out with today. In some ways, it casts a better light on this group of hockey players and the team going forward. And yet, I can't help but feel there were...
