Historically when the Calgary Flames have faltered, they haven’t faltered enough.
The Flames are enjoying their 30th season in Calgary and if things continue the way this season has started they will miss the playoffs for the 10th time. A playoff success rate of 67% is pretty good when it comes to sports franchises, so there is nothing to hang ones head in that regard.
Where the Flames have failed miserably is properly executing the “fail”.
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Psst … don’t look now but the Flames have a 21 year old center and a 20 year old defenseman on the roster, and the season opens on Thursday.
No seriously.
Two players seemingly about to take on larger than expected roles, and likely teaming up to buy Mach3 blades as neither has a daily need for the old straight edge.
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Three years ago John Armstrong surprised many by hanging on to the bitter end at a Calgary Flames camp, essentially being the last sent down to the Flames AHL affiliate.
His career was made right? Last cut at a NHL camp had to mean nothing but an easy choice to crack the roster the very next season if not by Christmas. Yet that wasn’t the way it worked out. The player is still on the horizon, but injuries and roster changes have altered his path to the Flames third line.
Every camp has twists and turns, surprise cuts, and players that hang around longer than anyone would have expected; the 2010 camp is no different.
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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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