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You Ain’t Shane, You Ain’t Mook – ’19-’20 NHL Team Previews: Edmonton Oilers

By Sam Fels September 25, 2019 0

And now this disaster. I was thinking earlier this morning that there really isn’t a parallel to the Oilers wasting one of the best players of all-time for years, but of course there is. It’s the Anaheim Angels. Mike Trout appeared in the playoffs once, and his team has been weighed down by incredibly bad […]

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You Get What Anyone Gets – Saying Goodbye To The ’18-’19 Calgary Flames

By Sam Fels April 22, 2019 0

How do you say goodbye to something you barely knew was there? Sure, Calgary was the West’s #1 seed, and you probably treat that revelation with an, ‘Oh…riiiight,” response. You knew it, somewhere in the back of your mind, and then forgot it, much like whether or not there was cream cheese in the fridge. […]

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Game #45 – Flames vs. Hawks Preview/City-Wide Wake: Is There A Chance The Center Could Bend?

By Sam Fels January 7, 2019 0

 vs.  RECORDS: Flames 26-13-4 (1st in Pacific)   Hawks 16-21-7 (6th in Central) PUCK DROP: 7:30 TV: NBCSN Chicago FRIENDS OF CAL AND GARY’S: FlamesNation.ca It’s a cruel world, this NHL. After the Hawks played what was maybe their best game of the season in Pittsburgh last night, outplaying the hottest team in the league, their reward […]

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Game #45 – Flames vs. Hawks Q&A: It’s Mad, It’s Not Pretty, And It Calls Itself Floob

By Sam Fels January 7, 2019 0

@BookofLoob is yet another creature we’ve unearthed from the darkest depths of the internet. We asked it questions, but don’t ask too many questions about it.  The Flames are still in first. This thing has to be real now, right?   Nashville is finally being undone by their “I love domestic abusers and a 36 […]

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Game #28 – Flames vs. Hawks Spotlight: Big Save Dave

By Sam Fels December 2, 2018 0

The Flames season was on the verge of turning into a mini civil war before October even ended. What was a talented team, and more than talented enough to compete in a learning annex of a division that is the Pacific, couldn’t stop spinning its wheels. They were scoring enough, were even fun to watch […]

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Game #15 – Hawks vs. Flames Spotlight: Bill Peters, The Goalie Reaper

By Sam Fels November 3, 2018 0

Any of you who have been around these parts for any length of time know that we rate coaches and GMs on a binary scale of Moron/Not A Moron. That’s kind of how backward the NHL is, that we can’t decipher anything more than that. We’ve always categorized Bill Peters as Not A Moron. His […]

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Game #15 – Hawks vs. Flames Q&A: A Creature From The Bog

By Sam Fels November 3, 2018 0

Some creatures fascinate science in how they came into being. And then some are viewed with the feeling, “Some questions are best left unanswered.” That’s the category @BookOfLoob falls into. Don’t ask, just let be. What has new coach Bill Peters changed from Glengarry Glen Gulutzan last year? And why should it work better than […]

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Game #15 – Hawks vs. Flames Douchebag Du Jour: That’s The Sound Of Inevitability, Mr. Smith

By Sam Fels November 3, 2018 0

We won’t lie to you (we never do). Watching Mike Smith‘s total and rapid meltdown in Calgary of late has done us good. Everyone has to cling to whatever brings a smile in this current world, and every time Smith points at a defender when another 50-foot wombat confusedly gets past him we believe that […]

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Game #52 – Hawks at Flames Preview/Immersion Therapy: Shadows In The Flames

By Sam Fels February 3, 2018 0

 vs.  RECORDS: Hawks 24-20-7   Flames 25-18-8 PUCK DROP: 9pm TV: NBCSN Chicago here, Sportsnet up there FRIENDS OF CAL AND GARY: Flamesnation.ca It can get exhausting living this way. After most losses you pronounce the season over, only to build yourself back up by the next game to say the turnaround has to start RIGHT […]

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Game #52 – Hawks at Flames Q&A: Fairly Sure He Has Mittens Pinned To His Jacket At All Times

By Sam Fels February 3, 2018 0

@BookOfFLoob is just one of those things that stuck to our shoe on Twitter. That sort of thing happens in the digital world. Everyone calls him Floob. If you want to make jokes about “Loob,” go right ahead. But he won’t have any idea what you’re talking about. We’re fairly sure he’s afraid of girls. […]