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Originally Posted by MissTeeks

Hey, at least it's a good player getting sent down that people are getting upset about and not Dustin Boyd being put on waivers. That's a good sign, right?

Let's talk about Johnny for a bit:

http://www.calgaryherald.com/sports/...038/story.html

Thank you, MissTeeks, for posting this fantastic piece.

Johnson has a tendency to lay it on thick, overwrite, and turn sports into melodrama, but I have to give him credit here—this is a great story.

Oh, and I also quite appreciated this bit of backstory on the Gaudreaus' decision for Johnny to sign last spring:

Originally Posted by George Johnson

...conjecture that the reason he held out on signing in Calgary was to flee the Flames left the Gaudreaus slightly mystified.

"Never once in our family did we ever, ever — not once — discuss that," says the patriarch [Guy Gaudreau] firmly. "Never. That’s not our family. I was born and brought up on the Canadian border. So I know hockey up there is life. I understand that. If someone offers you an NHL contact, you go play hockey. That’s how people think. But for us, his education came first, even if a lot of people didn’t believe it at the time. I think he understands how important that degree is to his mother and I."