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   Wednesday was the day with some unexpected developments, at least for me.
   I didn’t expect 31 trades at the NHL deadline.  Didn’t expect the Flames and Edmonton Oilers to make a trade for the first time ever.  Didn’t expect such a flat performance from the Flames in the 4-0 loss to Minnesota.
   A mere […]

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   “Iginla to Crosby. Shoots. Scores. Crosby gives Canada gold. Yeah Baby! Yeah Baby! Yeah Baby!”
   Fifteen little words I voiced excitedly going right across Canada either late Sunday afternoon, or early Sunday evening, depending where you were, capped off a fabulous 2-week Olympic experience.
   Now its back to normal. Flames hosting Minnesota on Wednesday.
   How […]

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  The Flames haven’t generated, or had, much love lately but on the eve of Valentine’s Day they look change that before going to the NHL Olympic Break.
  Jarome Iginla, Miikka Kiprusoff and Niklas Hagman will head to Vancouver after the game while the remainder of the team take an Olympic Honeymoon.
  The regardless of where they […]

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   Jarome Iginla and Daymond Langkow will be in the spotlight prior to Thursday’s Flame-Dallas clash as they are honored by the Flames for playing their 1000th NHL games last week in Florida on consecutive nights.
   The Flame plan was to salute both veteran forwards on separate evenings, but Iginla and Langkow wanted a joint […]

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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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