Calgary Puck

Internet polling, results and how they fit in with they non-cyber world … topics that have always caused great debate on Calgarypuck.com

Rabid hockey fans that flock to an online source to hash out every minute detail of a hockey club… are they more in tune? better fans? Indicative of society (Calgary) as a whole? Or homers wearing red and gold goggles, so unable to see fault with their hockey club that they can’t help but bend towards the positive?

Recently Calgarypuck.com was afforded a great opportunity to hopefully come up with answers to some of these questions; or perhaps not.
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It’s been an odd six days in Flames history, or better put … it’s been odd watching the Flames dabble in their own history for six days? Or is it … the Flames are history?

Any or all of those statements could be used to describe the club using three player acquisition methods to acquire five pieces of club history during the past week.
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The 2009-10 NHL season has not gone as planned in Calgary.

Big off season acquisitions of a stud defenseman and a can’t miss coach fired a cannon across the bow of Western Conference contenders that the deep on paper Flames would be a club to keep an eye on not only for the Northwest title, but also the top seed out West.

Quite clearly nothing has worked out.
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I’ve never been a home team general manager sycophant, nor have I gone out of my way to be overtly critical. I do believe that the arm chair and passionate hockey fan rarely, if ever has ever known more than those inside the team.

Some days test these theories. They don’t break said theories, but the bend them like a plastic Frostie spoon from Wendy’s and make you think twice about the direction of the hockey club. - Full Article -

There are trades you love the second you hear about them … “The Flames got all that for him!?”

There are trades that have you wondering about the winner, with good parts moving in two directions leaving fans from both cities claiming victory, and only time left to sort out the details.

Then there is the head scratcher. The deal that just doesn’t make sense … case in point tonight when the Flames and Rangers completed a 24 hour odyssey by sending Olli Jokinen and Brandon Prust to Gotham for Ales Kotalik and Chris Higgins.
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