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Originally Posted by George Johnson
Following the 2007 playoffs, Giordano was unable to come to contract terms with GM Darryl Sutter, remember, and spent a nomadic winter brushing up on Cyrillic for Moscow Dynamo of the Russian Super League as Calgary faced the Chicago Blackhawks in Round 1 of 2008.
A year later, back in the Flames' fold, he blew out a shoulder and underwent surgery on Feb. 23, ruling him out of a six-game opening-round loss to the San Jose Sharks...
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That is not quite right:
The Flames took the SJ Sharks to seven games in 2008. The following year, 2009 was the year the Flames defence and their #1 centre were decimated by injuries, and they lost in six games to the Chicago Blackhawks.