Curtis McElhinney will, in all likelihood, make his second start of the season tonight.
Flames starter Miikka Kiprusoff went to the rink this morning in Dallas ? but, very soon after, headed back to the hotel without having even put his gear on.
"Well," sighed Flames coach Brent Sutter, "he?s got a touch of the bug. So we thought we?d leave him at the hotel and see how he is tonight. But I?ve got to assume he?s not going to be playing. Which is fine ? Curtis can play."
If Kiprusoff?s out, then who sits on the bench tonight for the Flames?
A call-up perhaps?
"That?s not going to work ? we can?t get someone here in time," said Sutter. "Kipper, I think, will be fine to (play) back-up."
Everyone else, however, was present and accounted for this morning.
THE LINES
Dawes Langkow Bourque
Iginla Jokinen Nystrom
Glencross Boyd Moss
Sjostrom Conroy McGrattan
(LW Brandon Prust, a fourth-liner, skated extra this morning, suggesting that RW Brian McGrattan will work this evening)
THE PAIRINGS
Regehr Phaneuf
Bouwmeester Sarich
Giordano Pardy
Flames starter Miikka Kiprusoff went to the rink this morning in Dallas ? but, very soon after, headed back to the hotel without having even put his gear on.
"Well," sighed Flames coach Brent Sutter, "he?s got a touch of the bug. So we thought we?d leave him at the hotel and see how he is tonight. But I?ve got to assume he?s not going to be playing. Which is fine ? Curtis can play."
If Kiprusoff?s out, then who sits on the bench tonight for the Flames?
A call-up perhaps?
"That?s not going to work ? we can?t get someone here in time," said Sutter. "Kipper, I think, will be fine to (play) back-up."
Everyone else, however, was present and accounted for this morning.
THE LINES
Dawes Langkow Bourque
Iginla Jokinen Nystrom
Glencross Boyd Moss
Sjostrom Conroy McGrattan
(LW Brandon Prust, a fourth-liner, skated extra this morning, suggesting that RW Brian McGrattan will work this evening)
THE PAIRINGS
Regehr Phaneuf
Bouwmeester Sarich
Giordano Pardy
