data.3news-bydate.train.rec.sport.hockey.54727 Maven / Gradle / Ivy
Subject: Flames Final Stats and Playoff News
From: [email protected]
Organization: Mount Royal College, Calgary, Alberta
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News:
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For the first time all season, the Flames are now injury-free. The only player
remaining on the limp is center Carey Wilson who, even when healthy, is not
a major part of the team.
Trent Yawney did not score a goal all season until the last regular season
game against San Jose. He potted his first of the year in that game, and has
also scored goals in both Game 1 and Game 2 against Los Angeles.
Thoughts on Game 1:
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The Flames played horribly in dropping the first game of their series with
Los Angeles 6-3 on Sunday afternoon. They seemed more interested in throwing
big hits than in scoring goals. They physically dominated the Kings, but that
was the only area they dominated in. The game plan was to rush the net and
try and take advantage of a young, inexperienced L.A. defence and the shaky
Kings goaltending, but those plans fell by the wayside while the Flames
conducted a steady march to the penalty box. Particularily stupid was Theoren
Fleury taking a five minute major and a game misconduct for slamming Warren
Rychel's face into the dasher while Rychel was on his knees.
Goaltender Mike Vernon played well and could not really be faulted for the
loss, despite his well-publicized poor record in afternoon games. He got
very little support from his defence in clearing the front of the net and
sweeping away rebounds. In fact, Marty McSorley's goal actually went in off
Chris Dahlquist's skate in front of the net.
Thoughts on Game 2:
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The Flames came back strong in the second game, evidently aware of the
potentially fatal consequences of losing both the first two games on home ice.
The first period was fairly even, with the edge going to the Kings. But Calgary
came out strong in the second period and simply dominated the Kings, scoring
five goals to take a lead they never relinquished en route to a 9-4 win.
The deciding factors in this game were faceoffs and special teams. Calgary
dominated on faceoffs as they did in Game 1, but they were able to make better
use of the won faceoffs in this game than they did in the first one. Calgary
also went 3-for-5 on the powerplay while L.A. only went 1-for-8 and gave up
a shorthanded goal to Joel Otto. L.A.'s powerplay goal also came late in the
game with the outcome already decided. The Kings' powerplay failed them when
they needed it most, in the 1st and 2nd periods.
The Flames lost RW Greg Paslawski with a suspected shoulder injury when he
was leveled by Alexei Zhitnik right after scoring Calgary's 7th goal. Charlie
Huddy left the game for the Kings with a groin injury.
The game was marred by stupidity in the last minute. First, Craig Berube of
Calgary took a five-minute major for fighting plus a game misconduct for
instigating when he went after Tony Granato for no apparent reason. Granato
drew a minor for some strange reason. (Turtling perhaps). This was followed
30 seconds later by Warren Rychel drawing a major, minor, and game misconduct
for hitting Frank Musil in the face with his stick and then instigating a
fight. Musil got a fighting major for some similarily strange reason. Hardy and
Yawney went toe-to-toe and both got double minors. (Gregson thought that Musil
turtling amounted to fighting, but that Yawney and Hardy throwing punches at
each other was just roughing? Where's this guy from.....)
Upcoming games:
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Friday April 23, at L.A.
Sunday April 25, at L.A.
Tuesday April 27, home to L.A.
Thursday April 29, at L.A. (if necessary)
Saturday May 1, home to L.A. (if necessary)
Injuries:
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C Carey Wilson, indefinite with recurring knee injuries (Dec 10)
1992-93 Calgary Flames final regular season statistics.
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# Pos. Name GP G A Pts +/- PIM
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14 RW Theoren Fleury 83 34 66 100 +14 88
26 C Robert Reichel 80 40 48 88 +25 54
20 D Gary Suter 81 23 58 81 -1 112
10 LW Gary Roberts 58 38 41 79 +32 172
25 C Joe Nieuwendyk 79 38 37 75 +9 52
42 RW Sergei Makarov 71 18 39 57 0 40
2 D Al MacInnis 50 11 43 54 +15 61
29 C Joel Otto 75 19 33 54 +2 150
28 LW Paul Ranheim 83 21 22 43 -4 26
23 RW Greg Paslawski 73 18 24 42 +3 12
22 RW Ron Stern 70 10 15 25 +4 207
15 LW Brent Ashton 58 10 13 23 +11 52
11 LW Chris Lindberg 62 9 12 21 -3 18
34 D Roger Johansson 77 4 16 20 +13 62
18 D Trent Yawney 63 1 16 17 +9 67
3 D Frank Musil 80 6 10 16 +28 131
39 C Brian Skrudland 39 7 7 14 +4 65
16 LW Craig Berube 77 4 8 12 -6 209
7 D Michel Petit 35 3 9 12 -5 54
4 D Kevin Dahl 61 2 9 11 +9 56
33 C Carey Wilson (I) 22 4 7 11 +10 8
5 D Chris Dahlquist 74 3 7 10 0 66
21 D Alexander Godynyuk 27 3 4 7 +6 19
19 RW Todd Harkins 15 2 3 5 -4 22
12 LW Paul Kruse 27 2 3 5 +2 41
35 G Jeff Reese 26 0 4 4 0 4
6 D Greg Smyth 35 1 2 3 +2 95
30 G Mike Vernon 64 0 2 2 0 42
27 RW Thomas Forslund 6 0 2 2 0 0
?? C Shawn Heaphy 1 0 0 0 0 2
?? LW Patrick Lebeau 1 0 0 0 0 0
1 G Andrei Trefilov 1 0 0 0 0 2
# Name GP Min. GAA W L T EN SO GA SA Save%
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30 Mike Vernon 64 3732 3.27 29 26 9 4 2 203 1799 .888
35 Jeff Reese 26 1311 3.26 14 4 1 0 1 71 631 .889
1 Andrei Trefilov 1 65 4.62 0 0 1 0 0 5 39 .872
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Team Totals 84 5119 3.30 43 30 11 4 3 283 2469 .886