As a sidenote, I thought it was a nice little story to have Gio win the Norris and Jay Bouwmeester the Stanley Cup during the same season. Their carreers have been linked together in a somewhat weird way. They played together for several seasons on the Flames, even as a pairing at times, without being able to find any success on a team that looked pretty decent on paper but still managed to be an annual disappointment.
I also remember there were some discussion about whom of the two should be kept and who should be traded before Bouwmeester was ultimately sent to the Blues in 2013, and then there was the fuzz about Bouwmeester snubbing Giordano for the final spot on the World Cup roster in 2016.
Finally both of them got to the very top of the game, albeit in different ways, at age 35. I just find it poetic in some way.
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