Regardless of how he was viewed in his final days, I will always regard Darryl as a principle reason for why I am such an avid Flames fan today.
The years I was a 'fan' started in the late 90s... because Jarome. But I was always the weird Ontario kid who liked this unloved floundering team with an... interesting captain. I also had the coolest hockey card in the deck:
But it wasn't until Darryl when other people started to rally around my team.
Always happy to see a guy like Darryl do well.