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For the first time in a decade, the Flames' fathers will be joining the team on a road trip for their quick two game set this weekend in Southern California.

I think we've finally found someone who could go toe-to-toe with Brian McGrattan...


http://www.calgarysun.com/2013/11/29...what-we-can-do

For those players whose dads couldn’t make it — such as Karri Ramo and Ladislav Smid — or deceased, as is the case for Jiri Hudler, Craig Conroy is around to be a surrogate father.

He was the Flames captain the last time they had a father-son trip in the 2002-03 season. They lost both games on that sojourn, which didn’t sit well with head coach Darryl Sutter.

“Darryl said, ‘That’ll never happen again.’ True to his word, it didn’t,” Conroy recalled. “We lost, but we played some good teams.”

Curiously, Sutter’s current team, the Los Angeles Kings, just finished a father-son trip, so times have changed.

http://www.calgaryherald.com/sports/...140/story.html

“To get to meet some of their dads and see where they came from and how they were raised,” Stempniak said, grinning. “Like, ‘Does Brian McGrattan’s dad have the same personality as he does?’ Or where people get their senses of humour. I’m really looking forward to it.”

Added Colborne: “The best is the first day when you haven’t met any of (the other dads). You try to guess who’s dad is who. Some of them look EXACTLY like their son. And some of them look nothing like them. It’s always fun. We’re kind of guessing before we introduce ourselves.”