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As always, my own interpretations and paraphrasing off memory. I don't mean to take things out of context but it may happen.

Started with the COO doing the CalgaryNext routine. I won't spend too much time on it as it's the same spin as usual and I honestly wasn't paying much attention beyond the first few minutes.
- Plan B is to have the new arena just North of the Saddledome where the parking lots are now, $20-to-$90 million in McMahon renovations, and the field house in the City's hands but most likely beside McMahon.
- Flames are meeting with the city again on June (24th or 27th)
- I hope I misheard this part, so please correct me if so: The Flames, relative to the NHL, are a small market team so need the City and citizens' cooperation on the rink. If Calgary had a population of 6 million people or more things would be different and the owners would pay for the rink on their own entirely.
- CalgaryNext will have 2,400 parking stalls so parking concerns are overblown. In addition, shuttles will constantly run to CalgaryNext from downtown parkades/surface lots.
- For CalgaryNext, the remediation of the contaminated land would take place over many years. First the arena location would be remediated and once built the rest would start to be remediated. Not all at once.
- Bunch of stuff about how the Flames' dollar figure is more accurate than the City's. Zzzzzz.

The better stuff:
- Flames will be the Oilers' opponent in the Oilers' home opener (as mentioned by MissTeeks). (My opinion: Flames fans should invade the place for the Flames win)
- Fan asked about why the Flames need to get bigger given the roster the Penguins won the Cup with. Flames need to get bigger, but not at the expense of skill, speed, or intelligence. That said, the Sharks beat the Kings and Blues who are big teams. Thinks the Sharks were completely worn out by the finals due to physicality, travel, and age - easily could have been swept if not for Jones' goaltending. Burke thinks DeBoer is a tremendous coach but thinks he failed to make adjustments to slow the pace down given his veterans were running on fumes.
- 99.9% sure Gillies will not require protection in the expansion draft should one happen (wink wink nudge nudge) IF one happens. Don't want to get fined for talking about what may or may not happen.
- Flames have been running mock expansion drafts since Christmas using different rule sets on protection.
- Burke thinks an expansion team this time around will be a playoff contender with the "proposed" rules.
- Jankowski made good progress but is still mentally too slow. Not meaning hockey sense or awareness, but in terms of shooting before the lane is blocked or urgency, for example. Has the tools in every other category. Most likely will start in Stockton but there's a chance he could have a big camp. As DionTheDman said. Obviously they valued him more than a second-round pick as they signed him. Burke says every team he's talked to had Jankowski on their to-draft list but no one he knows of, other than the Flames, had him as a first-round pick.
- Flames philosophy is best player available regardless of anything. Not like the NFL where you draft a guy to fill a key position. Have to think years ahead.
- Think there's the big three then a shelf to pick (to pick 9 or 10 I think he said?)
- Have run draft mocks and have trade values all thought of ahead of time. You only have five minutes to ponder a trade so you need to be prepared for every possibility ahead of time.
- Contrary to what people think, teams with two good goaltenders haven't loaded one onto a bus en route to Calgary for free. Despite the "proposed" rules, goalies will still cost to acquire.
- Flames goaltending fell off a cliff last year - nobody could have predicted such a dramatic drop after the previous season.
- Big part of a coaches job is getting the most out of players, and felt Hartley got as much out of the players as he could - which was a lot. Thinks he'll be back in the NHL soon. Made a comment about no matter how good a coach is, eventually there starts to be pushback, then quickly said the inmates will never run the asylum. May have got context wrong here - read into it as you will.
- Spent a ton of time modelling their vision of coach and brought that to interviews. Very close but no news yet. Asked specifically about Rierdan and Gulitzen and said he won't comment on any individuals who may or may not be in the running.
- Asked about analytics as always. The question is so old Burke didn't even trot out the lamp post quote. Basically same as always: Flames have the best analytics in the league, far beyond Corsi and Fenwick, and beyond anything they've seen on the internet. That said, it's only a part of the evaluation. In interviews, gave coaching candidates a sampling and all of them said they had never seen anything like it before.
- No rush on Gaudreau and Monahan. Gaudreau isn't offer sheet eligible so if he's not playing come the start of the season it's a disagreement over money. Monahan is offer sheet eligible but they have a plan for if that were to happen.
- Waiting on exact cap numbers before beginning serious negotiations with other players.
- Flames will not ever give out a NMC. Have lost free agents as a result, but so be it. Limited NTC is okay.
- No plan to retire numbers. Mention Boston as a place where defencemen can hardly get a low number because half of them are retired. #14 will probably have a celebration of some sort "very soon". Again as DionTheDman said.