This is Good

Wow, what a road trip for our Flames. 5 consecutive and going for 6 tonight and the best part yet, back in playoff contention. Most of our thanks and praise have to obviously go to the Iggy-Langkow-Huselius line. They have on absolute fire lately. Iginla has to be, be put in the Crosby, Lecavalier argument going on recently for best player in the NHL right now. He got the nod for 1st of the week, is second in NHL scoring with 48 points and really is the one who has helped turned the Flames turn around.

Once again I will bring up the need of another defensemen. We have given up as many goals as the Oilers and that is just terrible. Sarich and Regehr have been doing their part in our own end but guys like Phaneuf and Aucoin have to step up again, like earlier in the year. Before I thought Huselius was expendable for a defensemen but with his play lately he is pretty valuable all of a sudden. Flames might have to give up a high draft pick to get another top-4 defensemen. Who knows maybe some crazy GM will take someone like Nolan or Nilson off our hands.

The Flames are in Columbus tonight and with the Blue Jackets play this year, it will be no easy task. The Flames will have to shut down Nash who hasent scored for 4 straight games and he should be looking to get back on track.It sounds like Nolan is out tonight too, thank the lord. Even better yet it sounds like Boyd will get a chance on the second line. Whether Keenan will ever realize that Lombo should be there in place of Conroy like bloggers at Five Hole Fanatics pointed out is another story. No matter what happens tonight, this road trip has been a success but a win is still necessary for more movement UP in the standings.

Here what the Lines should look like tonight:

1- HUSELIUS-LANGKOW-IGINLA
2- TANGUAY-CONROY-BOYD
3- PRIMEAU-LOMBARDI-YELLE
4- GODARD-SMITH-NYSTROM

1- PHANEUF-AUCOIN
2- REGEHR-SARICH
3- ERIKSSON-HALE

STARTER- KIPRUSOFF
BACK-UP- McELHINNEY

One last point maybe Regehr should play with Aucoin while Sarich be paired with Phaneuf to try and get some defensive play out of both Phaneuf and Aucoin.