Fantasy Hockey - The Reckoning

[Tingkai]

Originally posted by Asher
Yet another 1 goal loss. Playfair's gone by December.

Less than 10 games into the season and Asher's already panicking and surrendering.

Yup, the Flames are stinking up the rinks these days, but Asher, even though the Flames suck the big time, there is a slim change they might turn things around. You need some patience before jumping off the wagon.

And firing the coach won't do anything. Kippersoft is screwing up big time. The defencemen are not doing their job and the offence is anemic - as always.

There's not a lot that Playfair can do with so many mediocre palyers.

What we're seeing now is the Flames' achilles heel. They're only as strong as Kippersoft. Without him, the Flames are just a flicker.

[Tingkai]

Originally posted by Asher
If there's one thing I know after this many years of watching the Flames, it's what good defense is.

This still cracks me up.

Before 2003, the Flames were losers with crappy defence.

So I take it that "many years" means the two seasons of +.500 hockey.

No wonder you have such a narrow vision of what good defence is all about.

[Asher]

Originally posted by Tingkai
Less than 10 games into the season and Asher's already panicking and surrendering.

Yup, the Flames are stinking up the rinks these days, but Asher, even though the Flames suck the big time, there is a slim change they might turn things around. You need some patience before jumping off the wagon.

And firing the coach won't do anything. Kippersoft is screwing up big time. The defencemen are not doing their job and the offence is anemic - as always.

There's not a lot that Playfair can do with so many mediocre palyers.

What we're seeing now is the Flames' achilles heel. They're only as strong as Kippersoft. Without him, the Flames are just a flicker.

We're seeing a bunch of 1-goal losses that could easily be fixed without retarded coaching decisions.

This is why myself, and many other Flames fans, think Playfair's days are numbered. For instance, in powerplays the first unit he usually has on the ice is centred by...Jamie Lundmark with Nilson and Yelle on the wings. WTF? On the points he puts Zyuzin and someone else...then we wonder why we don't score on the powerplay...the first minute and a half is wasted on those clowns while Iginla, Tanguay, Huselius, Langkow, Phaneuf, Hamrlik warm the benches.

Then in this game, for the last minute of play when we're down 1 goal he puts in...Tony Amonte? He's got 1 assist and is -2 on the year...

He also decides to sometimes put Tanguay on the point on the powerplay, even though he CANNOT skate backwards with any reasonable speed. This resulted in Sundin's GWG, and other very good chances for other teams to score goals.

Playfair's making some really bizarre decisions that are setting the team back. It's not just Kipper's slow start or the team's offensive woes, Playfair's got a big part of this.

And, for future reference, his named is Kiprusoff, not Kippersoff. If you had any idea what you were talking about you may know that.

[Kontiki]

Almost at the bottom of page two. We can't have that.

[Sparrowhawk]

Anyone know for sure if Toskala or Nabakov is playing tonight?

San Jose has been rotating their goalies so that neither has played two games in a row yet, but given that Toskala has yet to lose and they are playing Minnesota, I would think they would go with him but if they are starting Nabakov, I might as well bench Toskala and play my third goalie.

Sooner or later I would assume they will make Toskala #1 and use Nabokov to rest him and when they are playing the weaker teams.

/me

[Hot Mustard]

Originally posted by Sparrowhawk
Anyone know for sure if Toskala or Nabakov is playing tonight?

San Jose has been rotating their goalies so that neither has played two games in a row yet, but given that Toskala has yet to lose and they are playing Minnesota, I would think they would go with him but if they are starting Nabakov, I might as well bench Toskala and play my third goalie.

Sooner or later I would assume they will make Toskala #1 and use Nabokov to rest him and when they are playing the weaker teams.

* Sparrowhawk

This site usually gets it right: Hockey Informer

[Kontiki]

You can also use rotowire.com. You have to pay for their full service, but you can usually get enough info out of the couple of free lines to tell who is starting on any given night.

[Sparrowhawk]

Okay, I am going to take the chance that Nabakov is playing tonight

Thanks for the websites, Informer says that Nabakov is starting, rotowire just tells me that they are rotating goalies (which I already knew).

Either way, worth the chance I think

/me

[mrboo123]

Well, I had a good night...

5G, 7A, 3+/-, 1PPG, and 2PPA

[Kontiki]

I thought Theodore's .778 save percentage would sink me - until I saw Toivonen's .765.

[Sparrowhawk]

Not sure if it was intentional or a mistake, but Joncha didn't end out dressing Nabokov, which may help him out as they are down 3-0 right now and the hit to his save % likely would have cost him that stat. As it stands right now I think I will win in goaltender wins but lose in save % and shut outs. Still looks promising for me to come out of the week with the win overall, so I am happy

/me

[Ninot]

Go Habs!

[joncha]

Originally posted by Sparrowhawk
Not sure if it was intentional or a mistake, but Joncha didn't end out dressing Nabokov, which may help him out as they are down 3-0 right now and the hit to his save % likely would have cost him that stat. As it stands right now I think I will win in goaltender wins but lose in save % and shut outs. Still looks promising for me to come out of the week with the win overall, so I am happy

* Sparrowhawk

I put him on the bench because I couldn't catch you in wins and I was already ahead in the other two stats.

Neither of us have any skaters tomorrow, so it looks like you'll take the week 5-3.

[Sparrowhawk]

Two goals late in the Edmonton - Detroit game, both by players on my bench (Lupul and Datsyuk) would have been enough to give me the win in goals. Instead i have players in my lineup giving me assists I don't need.

Oh well, lineup choices arn't going to be right all the time obviously. I still hold out hope that Thornton will score for San Jose but he is running out of time

/me

[joncha]

Yeah, I left a couple of goals on the bench myself. Thems the breaks.