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Die, cast
TSN Headline: STRUGGLING OILERS HEAD TO DALLAS TO FACE WOEFUL STARSI'm not quite up on the latest consensus on Peter Laviolette's job security, but the Hurricanes are presently sitting in a playoff spot, so... it would appear that the list headed "Coaches Who Will Be Fired If They Lose Their Next...
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Published a day ago

Flames Game Night
Canucks @ Flames, 8PM MT, HNICThere was a complimentary piece in today's Herald about Daymond Langkow, which was really nice to see. He's a terrific two-way player, but also, I suppose this is the upside of not having any elite prospects, YouTube stars, etc. up front: you don't have to suffer...
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Published 2 days ago

Tracers
Does it strike you that Gator and Smytty look a little guilty in this (rather startling) bus advertisement? So they should. Until this month I never understood fans who have claimed to become so frustrated with their own team that they began cheering against it. It seemed like an alien utterance,...
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Published 3 days ago

Friday Baseball Standings
It's early.**Another reminder: next Friday is the Battle of Alberta/Five Hole Fanatics meetup at Schanks North (Crowfoot Crossing) in Calgary. As noted, the FAN960 does their "studio work" for Flames road games live from Schanks, so that crew will be there. Which reminds me: Dean Molberg told a...
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Published 4 days ago

Flames Game Night
The Flames play the Canucks tonight at "Business as Usual" Place (8PM MT, RSN West), aka The Carhole. Excited is probably the wrong word, but I'm really looking forward to this game. Vancouver is 10-1-2 in their last 13, and I want to see how they're doing it, because some of the numbers imply,...
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Published 4 days ago

Quarter Pole
At left is the traditional BoA apples-to-apples look at the first 20 games of the season. Especially early on, it can be hard to divine exactly where teams sit just by looking at the Standings, because even a fairly small difference in GP is a largish percentage difference.As well, I track the...
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Published 5 days ago

Black Swan
Stop the presses: recent/former Flame David Hale just scored his 1st career NHL goal, in this his 248th career game between regular season and playoffs.Can't wait to see the highlight.UPDATE: Unrelated, but this is extremely funny.
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Published 5 days ago

Flames Game Day: Over the Hedge
Kings @ Flames, 730PM MT, RSN West----------I've written before on this site and others that I'm agnostic on the instigator rule. While I think it's clear that many of the people who rail against it are full of crap (these guys argue almost explicitly that nothing bad would ever happen to...
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Published 6 days ago

Flames Game Day
Red Wings @ Flames, 8PM MT, HNiC**A reminder to all our peeps around Western Canada: the Battle of Alberta / Five Hole Fanatics hockey meetup dealy is less than 2 weeks away, on Friday December 5th. The Flames game goes at 6PM on the big* screens, followed by the Oilers game at 830. Here's your...
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Published a week ago

Friday Baseball Standings
**As much as they are not owed one and don't deserve one, the Stars have probably caught a bit of a break. The only thing their hilariously poor start has cost them is a shot at the Pacific, and the way the Sharks look so far, that was probably never in the cards anyway. 2 games out of a...
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Published 2 weeks ago

Flames Game Night
My daughter is two years old today. I'll probably be starting on cake right about the time the puck drop. The other day, Pat had a thought that rang true to me: that at least in the family sense, time doesn't "fly by" at all. It seems like she has been around forever. Hell, it seems like she...
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Published 2 weeks ago

Chinese Democracy
This review of "Chinese Democracy" by Chuck Klosterman is hands-down the best review I've ever read."You know, I've weighed all my options and all their potential consequences, and I'm going with the Mexican vampire accent. This is the vision I will embrace. But only on that one line! The rest of...
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Published 2 weeks ago