Calgary Puck

And then there was none.

Well that’s not entirely true, the signing of Miikka Kiprusoff, a reported six year deal worth $35 million bucks, is the Darryl Sutter hat trick. His first two tallies, the Robyn Regehr and Jarome Iginla pacts were completed and announced in early July, with the third coming this afternoon with a press conference at the Saddledome.

Getting those three players signed was the big feat to be accomplished, the task required to prove copious nay sayers wrong, that the Flames core wasn’t a ticking time bomb, or a three year window, or a built for now tomorrow be damned hockey club.
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The big story in training camp this fall in Calgary has nothing to do with players, but the man set to guide them; in Coach Mike Keenan.

His nomadic history, his stellar accolades, his bombastic tirades all make the man a legend before he’s moved on to pasture, all of which makes him keyboard candy for local and national journalists.

However, if we must, if we truly dig deep and find a personnel story to dig our teeth into it’s that little battle to hold Miikka’ Kiprusoff’s golf bag that could hold some attention in the coming weeks.
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I have no reason to doubt the truthfulness in the long held assumption that the Flaming C, was in fact representative of the city of Calgary.

After all the fire used to surround an “A”, for Atlanta, and with the team moving Alberta Bound it only made sense that they’d adjust the vowel to a curved consonant to reflect their new home.

Lately however, a strong case can be made for a new tie in for the latter that adorns the front of the newly minted silks walked out at Flames Central yesterday (or leaked out by an over zealous web creator at the Saddledome earlier in the day), as in “C” for Change.
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