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Looks like ol’ Ketchup Cheeks and Bob Hartley are on the same page again.
More than two decades after retired defenceman Aaron Ward used to face off against Hartley’s teams in junior and the AHL, Hartley reached out to the TSN broadcaster Friday.
While Ward immediately reverted to his playing days, assuming any call from a coach was bad news, he was pleasantly surprised to hear the Calgary Flames head coach thank him for being the only mainstream media member in the nation to predict his Flames would make the playoffs.
“He started the conversation saying how much he appreciated it and that he saw it when I first said it,” said Ward from his home in South Carolina.
“He said he used it as motivation and mentioned it numerous times in his locker room over the course of the season.”
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Ward adds he now is in the midst of making plans to bring Bob MacKenzie and the TSN panel to Calgary for a playoff game, where he also plans to take several Calgary Twitter followers up on their promise of unlimited drinks at Cowboys Dance Hall should his pre-season prediction come to fruition.
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That's not the only promise that he's looking to settle on.
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