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Originally Posted by Jay Random

Ah, the young people today. They don't know how good they've got it.

If you can find it, go watch some video of Jeff Shantz centring the Flames' first line. (I was a season-ticket holder back then; they couldn't find anybody better to sell them to. So I won't watch the videos with you; it triggers my PTSD.)

Those were dark days, and by dark, I mean they were carved out of obsidian, painted matte black, wrapped in light-proof shrouds, dipped in special secret dark sauce, fed to a black cat, which was fed to a black dog, which was fed to a black panther, which was put in a black gunnysack with 100 pounds of coal dust and then inserted up the rectum of a black bull, in an unlit drift 1,000 feet deep in an anthracite mine, after midnight on a foggy night with no moon.

In those days, the Calgary Flames consisted of 23 Young Guns and no bullets.

Excellent post. I'll also add to those posters that appear to wish to trade away all the vets and ice an all-rookie team - the Flames have been there, done that and it was pretty much horrible.