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Who's Going to Win the Green Jacket?

Hello friends, it's that time of year again.  The week that every golf fan looks forward to more than any other, it's Masters week.  The azaleas are blooming, the grass is that special green and everything seems to be ready for play.  But which players are ready to win?  Augusta National seems to bring out the game's best players like no other layout in the world.  Perennial contenders and oft champions Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson will dominate most people's picks for the coveted green jacket, but there are others players with a chance.

Let's take a look at who's got the best shot to win this week.  I've taken the Vegas odds, and offered my own opinion.

Hope: It's a Horrible Thing

The general feeling that some desire will be fulfilled.


This is the definition of hope and the general sentiment that most Calgary Flames fans have endured for quite some time now.

Yes, their mathematical chances are extremely miniscule, but it’s difficult to give up hope even for the biggest cynics like myself if there is still a fighting chance.

I find myself checking the standings nightly (not that this is uncommon) and analyzing every nuance of each team wondering if this happens, and then this happens, and then that happens, then the Flames would only have to win out and they would make it.

What am I on? Someone must have roofied me.

But it’s just that feeling that you hold on to. That feeling that things could happen and that things could actually work out the way you had always hoped.

Iggy Iggy Iggy!

Sure, the Flames may be done for the season. While still alive mathematically, their 'magic number' is down to 3, meaning that any combination of points won by the Blackhawks and missed points by the Flames totalling three, and they're out.  And with the Blackhawks having five games left, it seems likely they'll be able to secure those points.

But that doesn't mean there isn't a reason to watch the Flames play.  Last night was the Jarome Iginla show, as the Captain scored two goals and an assist, and more impressively, recorded his 1,000th career NHL point.  With a vintage Iggy goal, number 12 was able to pot his 39th of the season from the top of the circle on a break away.

I'm glad team management decided not to follow the suggestion of many fans in December and January, those fans who felt Iginla should be traded because his best days were behind him.  True, he'll probably never score 50 again, but as he's currently 4th in goals, and 6th in scoring, it's clear he's still on of the league's top offensive threats.

Had Iginla been traded, the team might have been able to secure a high draft pick, or perhaps a couple of fine prospects, but we wouldn't have been watching a team flirt with the playoff these past three months; we'd have been watching a team like the Colorado Avalanche, or worse, like the Edmonton Oilers.  Teams in free fall, hoping there is a light at the end of the tunnel.

The 'heart and soul' of the team, Iginla is without a doubt the major reason the Flames have even a sniff of a playoff spot right now, and one of the few reasons anybody is still watching this team with any interest.  I'm glad he's still apart of the Calgary Flames, I'm glad I was able to see him score his 1,000th point in a Flames jersey, and I'm hopeful the situation will be unchanged next year.  That way I'll be able to see him score his 500th goal, hopefully in the Dome, again in a Flames jersey.
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Flames are Cooked

And that’s that.

A two and a half month stretch of some impressive hockey collapses like a loosely formed house of cards in a matter of two weeks. As a result, the Calgary Flames will miss the playoffs for the second consecutive year.

Despite going 16-5-1 from mid January to mid March, the Flames will be hitting the links and not the ice come April 13th.
Last nights game just further intensified the disappointing sensation that was emanating through Flames nation over the past week. A disallowed goal that from every conceivable angle was actually in the net was the final straw. The ‘non-goal’ allowed the Ducks an opening and they quickly took a two-goal lead and all but drove the final nail into the Flames coffin.