There's positive aspects to playing in Calgary over other cities, and we're definitely not as bad as Edmonton, Winnipeg, or Ottawa but on the balance most players will not want to come here. You can either accept that as an additional challenge and try to work around it like I feel BT has, or you can cry about it and use it as an excuse like Oiler brass has done time and again. But it's there, and very real. Calgary is a small market, it's isolated, it's cold, and those factors aren't going to be balanced out by having a passionate fanbase or being close to the mountains for most players especially when you compare it to the premiere cities on this continent that have teams. For Kadri as a native Torontonian going from there to here is like us going from here to Sudbury or St. John's.
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