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  The Flames are sequested well away from the House of Commons but Tuesday night they face the hockey team from our nation’s capital.
  …And the Ottawa Senators are doing much better than our governing fathers these days.
  On Saturday, the Sens were blown away in Toronto, 5-0, ending their club record 11-game win streak.
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  On Saturday night, the Flames and the team they are aiming to catch, the Vancouver Canucks, found themselves at the same Tampa hotel.
  On Sunday morning, while the Flames travelled to Ottawa, some Canuck players took advantage of a day off to make the 3-and-a-half trek to Miami for the Super Bowl Game.  The […]

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   I was in the Philadelphia hotel lobby the evening Ollie Jokinen joined the Flames last March.
   …And late Monday night I was at the backdoor of the Saddledome as the centreman from Finland left the Flames.
   He started with a flourish and ended with the whimper in his 11 months with the Flames.
   Lending further […]

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   Comparing this 7-player Flame-Toronto deal with the 10-player transaction as the TV sports network did yesterday isn’t close to accurate.
   The only similarities is the teams making the big player transaction are the same.
   In Jan. 2,1992 the Flames ripped the heart of their team dealing Doug Gilmour to the Maple Leafs as well as 3 intrical character […]

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   There was little chatter on the Flames’ 3-and-a-half hour flight to Dallas and it may have been because chatterbox Craig Conroy wasn’t on board.
   Conroy normally the most positive guy on the team even in the lowest of times. Likely wasn’t in such a good mood learning that he is going to be sidelined for a […]

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   Darryl Sutter proclaimed during the weekend that he has no plans to pull off a major trade to shakeup his Flame team which has lost 5-straight games (winless in 6, including extra time loss).
   The GM put the team together and says, “We have no intention of breaking any of it up. You don’t […]

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   In the aftermath of the 9-1 drubbing in San Jose on Monday, coach Brent Sutter exclaimed, “Enough is enough.”
The coach was again frustrated after Thursday 3-1 setback to Chicago.
Sutter can only hope that over the 3 days before the next game that his players adopt the cry, “6 is enough.”
Thursday’s defeat was the 6th in […]

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  Color me wrong.
  In my third last blog, after the Flames were shutout 1-0 by Nashville at the Saddledome on  Jan. 15 in the headline, which I wrote, screamed “After Hitting ‘Rock Bottom’ …What Next?”
  The blog suggested that after have their goal production in successive games regress from 3,2,1,0 the Flames had bottomed out. Wrong.  […]

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The Flames are too good a team to lose a game 9-1 as they did in San Jose on Monday.
But, then, so was the last Flame team allow 9 goals in a game.
In fact, for the 1987-88 Flame squad it happened twice in a span of 6 games. Feb […]

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   It wasn’t requested or wanted, but it seemed like a natural progression for the scoring challenged Flames.
   After counting it down scoring 3 goals last Saturday in Vancouver, then 2 on Monday and 1 on Wednesday, none on Friday the Flames hit bottom in the 1-0 loss to Nashville.
   Now it’s back-to-back on the road […]

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