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For me there's three things wrong with what the Flames have done so far.
1) Fleury needs to get his jersey retired.

2) Forever a Flame is a dumb name and a dumb thing as is. If you need to explain to an out-of-town fan what it is, you're doing it wrong. So please no "Wall of Flames" either. Keep it self-explanatory.

Also, if the explanation is "it's jersey retirement except the jersey isn't actually retired", that should really obviously tell you you're doing it wrong.

3) There's guys who aren't getting the accolades they deserve. Regehr for example.

Solution to 2 and 3 is pretty much the same; take down the FaF banners from the ceiling and create a place where you can honor/remember long time Flames, something with a self-explanatory name. It would also make for a good reason to have a nice opening ceremony where you could have all the FaF guys with new additions, without it being too weird.

Personally I would call such a place the Hall of History, as it's way less pompous than a hall of fame, and I think it would be more fitting for a franchise that despite it's storied history doesn't have a lot of what out-of-towners would call fame. (But a Hall of Fame would obviously work fine.)

A hall of history is also a lot more accomodating. You could include pretty much anyone with 10+ seasons as a Flame without it becoming too crowded too fast, and you could more easily include guys that are only Flames fans care about.

I'd love to see a place where guys like Jim Peplinski (700 GP, co-captain for multiple seasons, whole career with the Flames), Joel Otto, Robyn Regehr etc. are side by side with guys like Iginla and Vernon. Yeah, I would even like to see Tim Hunter get recognized. That guy literally bled for the Flames, a lot. 11 seasons in Calgary is a long time too.

In general I'd like to see something that's more about remembering guys who bled Flames colours season after season, than just another place to shower accolades on the superstars.