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Coooo EEEEE, or Kooo EEEEE, but not Coe, a thousand apologies to the Alberta Curling fans offended by my blatant miss-representation of the 2010 Brier Champions name in the out of town scoreboard after last nights game. I wasn’t even into the Hot Stove Lounge down at the dome this morning and it was […]

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“Winning cures all!” – Author Unknown
“It’s what we in hockey call a deuce and a nickel!” – Brian Burke GM Toronto Maple Leafs March 10th, 2010.
I have spent a lot of time thinking about those two quotes, the first one because it really does capture the emotion of the recent fortunes of the local hockey […]

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Want to take a moment to recognize that there has been no shortage of e-mail traffic of late very upset with what has transpired in the past 6 weeks that in itself isn’t unusual even when the teams winning some aren’t happy with the direction of the team. What is different is the number […]

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Swing and a miss yet again, my assumption was heading into the trade deadline that the Flames would move some bodies out and bring some draft picks and prospects back. I guess in the case of the deal with Nashville that is exactly what they did by sending Dustin Boyd over for a 4th […]

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This will not be a trade Blog for that check out Pat’s blog today as he will be all over what ever takes place.
With that said I do think the Flames will be active today, as I talked about yesterday on the show, just accumulating draft picks or prospects would be surprised to see warm […]

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The Calgary Flames will announce that they have signed Matt Stajan to a contract extension somewhere in the neighborhood of 4 years and a cap hit of 3.5 million.
Along with the two years remaining on Hagman’s contract the Flames look like today that they are coming out with more in the Phaneuf trade then the […]

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Tears, honest to goodness tears, when I heard Peter Maher call Sidney Crosby’s overtime winner and then attach the triple “yeah Baby’s” I was overwhelmed. Admittedly I am terribly jealous of all of my counterparts who worked this incredible hockey game today, I would have loved to be there to have worked alongside of […]

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The speculation was indeed true the Flames have locked up forward Rene Bourque to a new long term deal. According to sources it is a 6 year deal with 3.3 million cap hit. Seems like a reasonable deal that will keep him here until his 34, it will be an absolute steal if […]

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Well the reality has certainly set in for me once again, I am indeed getting older, it used to be I could work all day all night and then again on weekends, not because I had to but because I could, well it turns out I can’t anymore. I had the last week off, […]

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A couple of things to start off a Saturday morning:
First an apology for something I got wrong during the pay per view game on Thursday (other then calling Perry Charlie for most of the first period) on the disputed goal at the end of the game I mistakenly said that the referee called the goal […]

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