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Well that is what I’d call typical Flames hockey. The Flames showed their usual 3 minutes of brilliance, followed by 57 minutes of bad passes and one vs. four efforts.

So in three games the Flames have a goals per game average of 1. And one of those is an empty netter. Wicked.

The Flames have been outscored 8-3 in three games. And two of those games were against the worst teams in the league. Wicked.

The Flames top line, a line I like to call Somethin’ to prove, has a whopping zero points. And I haven’t seen Iginla win a one-on-one battle all year. Wicked.

Jokinen’s eyes are too close together. Tim Jackman is our best player. Wicked.

The Flames won their home opener… hallelujah. But they lost another guy – Pardy – to a shoulder injury.

Here is who was good:

• Glencross
• Jokinen (seriously!)
• Kiprusoff (as always)
• Meyers (Jamal?)
• Jackman (great fourth line game)
• Conroy (not just because he scored)

Here is who was not:

• Bouwmeester

And here is who’s injured:

• Rene Bourque (potential head injury, day to day);
• Matt Stajan (separated shoulder, week to week);
• David Moss (shoulder, indefinite);
• Raitis Ivanans (potential head injury, day to day);
• Ales Kotalik (knee, indefinite);
• Ryan Stone (knee, indefinite);
• Daymond Langkow (neck, indefinite); and
• Adam Pardy (shoulder, indefinite).

But the Flames won, so that is all that matters. And I enjoyed it more because of the Peter Loubardias drinking game. I’ll share the rules as soon as I can find them, but the gist of is it this… drink when Peter references ‘time and space.’ Stephen Hawking would be proud.

I don’t even know what’s worse… that the Flames lost to the Oilers, that Kiprusoff was out-goaltended by Nikolai Khabibulin, that Ivanans was knocked out cold in a fight with Steve MacIntyre, or that I stayed up late to listen to the two worst NHL personalities in Mark Lee and Kevin Weeks.

I’m not going to say that Kevin Weeks is retarded, that would be politically incorrect. What I will say, is that the CBC sends the short bus to pick Kevin up from his home. Set down the streamers Kevin, you have to provide colour to the hockey game.

The game story (what’s important) is this. The Oilers outplayed the Flames in the first period, badly. The Flames outplayed the Oilers in the second, badly. The third was pretty evenly split – the Flames out shot the Oil in the game 37-33. The difference in the game was 4 minutes in the third period when Edmonton scored three times on four shots. The top line of Edmonton was just better than the top line of Calgary. I thought Iginla looked like Jokinen all night. Which is bad. And Bouwmeester, don’t even get me started on what I think of him being paid $60,000 for tonight’s game. I think he should cut cheques to all Flames fans, that is how bad he was.

If there are any left. Oh yeah, in case you thought otherwise… going unbeaten in the preseason means nothing.

All it took was an early garbage goal by Alex (Pass First) Tanguay and 55 minutes of heroics by Miikka Kiprusoff, and the Flames beat the Oilers 1-0 to end the preseason undefeated. But the Flames should beat them, aren’t the Oilers  projected to finish 29th or so?

The real season starts Thursday (against the Oil, on CBC) and the Flames have 82 chances to fight their way into 8th place in the West.

Only three more days people!

Both Jokinen and Bourque played, so I’ll add updates on Langkow, Moss, Stajan, Stone, Pardy and Kotalik as soon as I hear anything.

Yes it’s preseason, but it’s always more fun to win than to justify why this and that didn’t really matter. Iggy scored a couple, and T.J. Brodie added another which keeps him in camp for another day. Plus we got to see the second-coming-of-an-Oilers-dynasty lose — and lose badly.

The important part of this game is that both Moss and Kotalik left with injuries. Moss left Rexall with his arm in a sling and Kotalik left with a heavy limp. That leaves the Flames with 12 healthy forwards, not including Bourque and Jokinen who are out day-to-day for maintenance.

It’s Conny’s time to shine on the second line, and Backlund seems to be doing alright on the top line. As long as we keep winning that is.

The final preseason game is on Sunday at 6 – and is free (because we are still in the free-preview zone) on Sportsnet ONE. Enjoy, because the Oilers are after some retribution.