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It truly is too early for a eulogy on the Flames season -- there's six WC teams that would switch places with them right now -- but Eff-Me do I hate the Sutters right now.As far as I can tell, Brent is Craig Hartsburg, though with the good fortune of having more talented pro teams. Every fan of...
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Published 5 days ago

Injured by Matt Cooke
Daymond Langkow, November 2007 -- concussion (hit from behind into boards)James Wisniewski, November 2007 -- concussion, face stitches (hit from behind into boards)Petteri Nummelin, November 2007 -- concussion, broken nose (hit from behind into boards)Scott Walker, January 2009 -- concussionZach...
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Published a week ago

March
So Wednesday afternoon, Mrs. Matt and I are taking off to Phoenix for 4 days & 4 nights.Going to hit the beginning of spring training -- check out the Giants' place in Scottsdale, and maybe the new Indians/Royals place out in Surprise or the new Dodgers palace.Have basketball tickets to UCLA at...
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Published 3 weeks ago

Flames Game Night
This is David Moss. He returns from injury tonight, and he's going to save the Flames' season.His health, and Bourque's health come March 1, and the addition of the new forwards will -- in the absence of some really rotten luck -- give them a good shot versus a tougher sked over the final 20...
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Published a month ago

Friday Baseball Standings
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Published a month ago

Mike W's art therapy
(Click to enlarge)Sometimes when I get mad at things I express myself though ART!
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Published a month ago

Flames Game (Brand New) Day
I'd like to be excited about tonight's game -- first game of the rest of the season and all, see if Stajan and White are any good (not too worried about Hagman), etc.But this Kotalik thing is hanging like a dark cloud. In a rather stunning development, the MSM, bloggers, and commenters seem to be...
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Published 2 months ago

Traded Phaneuf
The die was cast at the end of June 2009. Darryl Sutter may have hoped that paying both J-Bo and Dion $6.5M/yr for years to come was a good plan, but it wasn't; 50+ games this season have shown fairly clearly that it wasn't; and fortunately for we Flames fans, Sutter has acknowledged that it...
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Published 2 months ago

Sometimes the kernel just doesn't pop
For quite a few years, Brent Krahn was the Flames' most important goalie prospect. I often used to think -- as recently as the 06/07 season -- that it wouldn't be so bad if a little injury gave him the opportunity to show his stuff for a couple of weeks, or that maybe the big club should install...
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Published 2 months ago

Well, it needs SOME kind of gloss
As I just tweeted, I propose that Saturday night's Battle of Alberta -- where the combatants have a combined 21-game losing streak -- be dubbed, "Keenan and MacT Appreciation Night". Any chance this catches on?
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Published 2 months ago

This I Believe: Winter 2010
Johnson wouldn't even acknowledge that ten consecutive losses constituted a slump. Trying to keep his poise as everybody around him lost theirs, Johnson commented: "You say to yourself, let's go back to the time when we were successful. What did we do differently? For the six weeks when we lost...
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Published 2 months ago

Flames Game Night
Three years and one week ago, on January 2nd, 2007, the Flames played the Canucks (in Calgary). In that game, Alexandre Burrows burned Kipper pretty good on a deke, and scored his 1st goal of the 2006-2007 season. In January. It was his 39th game of the season; his first goal in 48 games.I like...
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Published 2 months ago