No other way to explain it, outside of any player analysis, you just had this horrible feeling in your gut that day. Maybe it had nothing to do with the actual trade, but for me anyway, that the fact the trade needed to happen signified the expiry of the Flames as we knew it, and that we really had to accept that the momentum from 04 was over, and we truly had to admit that the experiment had failed and the window officially closed on that version of the Flames.
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