Calgary Flames Daily: Game Day, Brian Elliott Finding His Game
By Ramina Shlah
Good morning Flames fans! The Calgary Flames will be back in the city tonight to face the Los Angeles Kings. Let’s look at some recent Flames news.
It’s another cold day in the province of Alberta tonight where the Calgary Flames will take on the Los Angeles Kings. These two teams have already met one other time where the Kings shutout the Flames 5-0. A bit of a rough loss, I’d say.
However, the Flames have won 5 of their last six and the Kings have won just one in their last five. So the Flames will be coming out feeling hot tonight.
Chad Johnson had the start the last time these two teams met. The Flames haven’t posted their projected lineups yet, but it’s safe to guess that Brian Elliott will most likely get the start tonight. The Flames are coming off a very successful 4-0-1 road trip where Elliott started in four of the games. He went 3-0-1.
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Safe to say that he’s finally starting to give the Flames the goaltending they needed. And he’s definitely starting to prove that he’s the goaltender that the Flames were hoping he would be. The biggest problem for this team for the last few years has been their goaltending. Not that their goaltenders were always bad, but they were never consistent. And with how good Elliott’s been over the last month, it’s nice to see that he may finally be giving the Flames the consistency they need heading into these last few weeks of the regular season.
Tonight’s game will also be fun for another goaltending reason: Ben Bishop. He was traded to the Kings just days ago. We don’t know the starting goaltender for the Kings yet either, but if Bishop gets the start, which there’s a high chance he will, this will be a fun game.
I mean, games against the Kings are always fun. Except, you know, when the Flames lose 5-0.
Some links surrounding the Flames to get you through your morning
Game day: Los Angeles Kings at Calgary Flames (Calgary Herald).
Eric Francis: Brian Elliott finally providing the Calgary Flames consistently competing goaltending (Calgary Sun).
Surging Flames give Treliving reason to hold steady at deadline (Sportsnet).
The Flames’ stretch run (The Hockey Writers).
Some other links surrounding hockey and the NHL
NHL trade deadline: Recent champs took varying paths (CBC Sports).
Four contending NHL teams that must make a trade before deadline (NESN).
NHL trade deadline tests general managers’ impulse control (The Star).
NHL’s next 50 goal scorers (The Hockey Writers).
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That’s all in this edition of Flames Daily! Let’s hope the Flames can come out on top this time against the Kings and a Bishop (see what I did there. Sorry, that was lame).