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Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina
I find the whole Theo thing to be hard to understand
- On one hand the organization has shown no intent to honor Theo
- On the other hand, no one has worn 14 since Theo. Is that just coincidence or is there some sort of policy in place?
- You've got a guy like Nieuwy who HAS been honored yet his number has been worn.
So a lot of confusing messages
For what its worth I think overall the Flames do a horrible job of the stuff
- The entire forever a flame program is lame. Just retire the numbers or don't. Half steps are annoying
- The banners are poorly designed and inconsistent. The visual of the rows of banners in the dome don't look nearly as good as they should. Take them all down, and simplify the design and put up ones that look the same for pete's sake.
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Honor the on-ice achievements by keeping #14 out of circulation. Won't be worn by another Flame again.
At the same time, they aren't prepared to devote a FAF/number retirement ceremony to Theo, likely due to the off-ice stuff.
I do agree that the FAF is painful -- would have been better just to do a ring of honor instead of raising FAF banners next to 9 and 30.
P.S. The original Lanny retirement banner was perfect. Then they screwed it up with Vernie's and ended up quietly changing both to keep some sort of consistency.
