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Originally Posted by Royle9

The main narrative here is that something is wrong in Dougie land w/ Calgary based on ALL the smoke in the media. We've heard rumblings of this ever since his brother was let go and even into the previous year.

Again, we all know how well Dougie played this year and nobody is taking that away from him. However given the smoke I think some of you may need to get your life vests out and realize your Hamilton boat may be sinking.

It's starting to sound like there's a very good chance he wont be on the Flames next season, so rather then get upset at posters who are trying to come up with some idea's for what they'd like to see Calgary get back given a Hamilton trade, think about it yourself and start preparing for a post Dougie Flames roster. The constant bickering of HOW good Hamilton is is running dry, we've heard it 1000x times now and have seen it for ourselves. He's a great top 2 D man on the Flames, but it sounds like there's underlying issues here that the Flames see as a problem and so his name is out there as available.

Deep breaths everyone, trading Hamilton for other assets wont single handily make or break the Flames season, some of you seem to act as if Dougie's the glue to the entire roster and sadly it couldn't be further from the truth.

Media sensationalism IMO