Oilers Streamers

In the words of Jerry Seinfeld "What's the deal with...." those streamers the oilers had at their game against Nashville last night, I think someone forgot to tell them that New Year's is tonight not last night. Also I have to say, man is George Laraque bad, I didn't watch a lot of the game but for the one shift that I saw him on the ice he had to wide open shots in the slot, one even a breakaway, and one the goalie easily poke checked and the other he missed the net, not to mention the fact that George has a grand total of 0!!! goals, why is he even playing, the Flames have moved on from Oliwa who probably would have had at least one goal by now but for someone reason the Oilers keep Laraque around. Maybe I am just bitter because the Oilers beat Nashville and Calgary didn't, but I am sure after tonight I will feel much better. So happy New Year's to everyone and see ya in 2006

'Dead' man comes alive in morgue

A man was moved from a hospital morgue in Portugal to a care unit after he was heard coughing several hours after a doctor declared the 95-year-old dead.

Theo Fleury

I became a Flames fan in the mid 1990's so before the 03-04 playoff run my highlight of being a flames fan was watching Theo Fleury play in Calgary. He was one of the smallest players in the NHL at 5 foot 6 but that didn't stop him for doing things like scoring 50 goals, winning a stanley cup, and even getting in a few fights. For those of you who dont remember Theo Fleury was removed from the Black Hawks for abusing the NHL's substance policy a couple years back when he became more trouble than he was worth to use the term that was used at the time. Now, however, it has been reported that he would first of all no longer be considered abusing the substance program, which is a huge plus, and second is getting married and playing the game he used to play so well... well... so well again. I am sure right now Fleury wouldn't cut it in the NHL and might not even pass a physical, but if he continued to improve and really worked out I think he could be a 3rd or 4th liner in the NHL and maybe even for the Flames(I would take him over Jason Weimer).

Faking high sticking injuries

I recently went to the Flames game against Nashville on Tuesday and it was the near the start of the 3rd period, the Flames were up 3-2 and Matthew Lombardi and Darcy Hordichuck(who played chippy all game, but at least Simon beat him up) were skating towards the puck in the Flames corner when all of a sudden Hordichuk grabs for his face and dives to the ice like he was shot. I had 7th row seats(Christmas present) right in the corner that this happened so I could easily see that Lombardi never even touched him with his sticks, he had his stick up a little but deffinently never touched him and even the replay which only had bad angles it never looked like he hit him, but good old Mick McGeough fell for it and Lombardi with an extremely surprised look on his face went to the penalty box and Hordichuk even started the powerplay. The more weird thing was once again tonight I was watching the highlights(not very closely) and in what I think was the Montreal game a similar thing happened but they even had strong video evidence that the player had dived. So I think the NHL needs to start watching for this during the game and checking replays after the game and start fining players like they did with tripping or hooking dives.

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I have created this blog to hopefully bring Flames fans together to talk about, of course the Flames as well as other stuff in Calgary, whats going on in the world wide web, and whats going on all around the world, but most importantly THE FLAMES.