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.
In the new NHL scoring has greatly increased for sure, but as we get half way though the season even with all the goals it looks like the winner of the hart trophy this year could be a goalie and not one of the many forwards tearing up the league. One of the more under rated goalies is Tomas Vokoun who is probably the main reason why Nashville is challenging the powerhouse Red Wings for 1st in the division and 1st in the whole league. The next candidate is not one but two goalies, if the combination of Manny Fernandez and (former Flame) Dwayne Roloson could be combined in to one goalie they could possibly be the best in the league. Another candidate is the Flames own Mikka Kiprusoff who has been nothing less than amazing for Calgary over the last couple months, he got off to a slow start which hurt his stats but if you just watch him for one game you can see he makes at least 2 or 3 almost unstoppable saves every game, and even when the Flames offense doesn't show up he has gave them a chance. The final candidate is someone who is not new to being a hart candidate and that's the Dominator, Dominik Hasek, he isn't talked about a lot because of Ottawa's great offense but he is 2nd place in wins, goals against average, and save percentage. So the race to watch may not be for the leading point or goal scorer but to watch who wins the vezina for top goalie.
1/12/2006
Goalie for MVP?
In the new NHL scoring has greatly increased for sure, but as we get half way though the season even with all the goals it looks like the winner of the hart trophy this year could be a goalie and not one of the many forwards tearing up the league. One of the more under rated goalies is Tomas Vokoun who is probably the main reason why Nashville is challenging the powerhouse Red Wings for 1st in the division and 1st in the whole league. The next candidate is not one but two goalies, if the combination of Manny Fernandez and (former Flame) Dwayne Roloson could be combined in to one goalie they could possibly be the best in the league. Another candidate is the Flames own Mikka Kiprusoff who has been nothing less than amazing for Calgary over the last couple months, he got off to a slow start which hurt his stats but if you just watch him for one game you can see he makes at least 2 or 3 almost unstoppable saves every game, and even when the Flames offense doesn't show up he has gave them a chance. The final candidate is someone who is not new to being a hart candidate and that's the Dominator, Dominik Hasek, he isn't talked about a lot because of Ottawa's great offense but he is 2nd place in wins, goals against average, and save percentage. So the race to watch may not be for the leading point or goal scorer but to watch who wins the vezina for top goalie.
1/04/2006
Dustin Boyd
Calgary Flames prospect Dustin Boyd has been tearing it up in the World Juniors for Team Canada. With only one game left in the tournament Boyd leads team Canada in points and goals, he is also tied for 2nd in the whole tournament in goals ahead of both Malkin and Kessel. Boyd was selected in the 3rd round 98th overall in 2004 by Calgary. Boyd has improved a lot since he was drafted in 2004 considering Kris Chucko who was drafted in the 1st round by Calgary that same year was cut by Team Canada. In his 4th season this year with Moose Jaw Boyd has 27 goals and 47 points in 32 games. Maybe Boyd is the number one center the Flames have needed for years or maybe that's going a little to far but either way he is currently one of Team Canada's top players and hopefully they can win gold tomorrow!
1/01/2006
Streakist Scorer in the NHL
Welcome everyone to the year 2006. This year ended off with something very strange, a Shaun Donovan goal, it started two days ago when he broke out of his 34 game goal less streak with a goal against Minnesota, he followed that up with not one but two goal's against Edmonton. Donovan was looking worse and worse the last two weeks until he finally got that goal against Minny, than in the Edmonton he looked almost unstoppable and is finally using his great speed to his advantage, he is deffinently a streaky scorer but after seeing this is he the most streakiest scorer in the whole NHL?
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