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Originally Posted by Table 5
Burke needs to get over his ridiculously pointless old-man rules, and let players wear whatever they want (as long as its not a retired number of course). As a fan, its getting hard to distinguish players on the ice these days as the numbers are so condensed together. The only ones that are easy to recognize are the kids who haven't be subjected to this silly rule.
What's wrong with having some brand recognition on an individual basis? I know there's some BS reason about "not being above the team" but if being a 50 instead of a 5 is what divides your lockeroom, then your team chemistry is terrible to begin with.
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Even knowing that they've said that Jooris can keep 86, I'm still going to side with Burke on this policy.
High "vanity number" are generally a holdover from junior or lower when guys were announcing "I'm a scorer and want to stand out from the crowd of regular players!", which is contrary to the team succeeding on hard work and sacrifice attitude that they're trying to instill on the Flames.
I know there's some BS reason about "the value of brand recognition" but if being a 5 instead of a 50 is the difference between a player being happy or not, then he's got some terrible character issues to begin with.
