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Originally Posted by ComixZone
I'm completely fine with the Flames not retiring anyone until the new arena is opened - at which point we retire Iginla's 12, then Fleury's 14 and Kipper's 34 alongside officially retiring Al Mac's 2, all with nice matching banners befitting the new arena.
Theoren Fleury, Jarome Iginla, Al MacInnis, Mike Vernon, Lanny McDonald, Miikka Kiprusoff as our retired jerseys makes sense to me.
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The new arena is not that close. My guess is that its 4 years away at the earliest. Like you said the flames will be able to retire Iggy, Kipper ect. in the new arena. I don't see them retiring multiple #'s in one year and i am not sure they would do a ceremony every year? I could see them doing one every other year and Fleury would be behind Iggy and probably Kipper. That could be a decade away for Fleury.
In the next 2 seasons the flames are not going to have a lot of meaningful games in the second half of the seasons. Maybe a good idea to retire #14 in the 2nd half of one of the next couple of seasons to fill up the dome for a night.
The main point is Fleury should have his # retired.