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Originally Posted by EastCoastFlamesFan
I'm a HUGE fan of this era. Although my personal golden NHL era is the 89 season to the 94 season. Just a great run of seasons.
PS: Cool to see another Flames fan in NC! I thought I was the only one.
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Ha! Same - it's pretty hard to find a hockey fan (let alone Flames fan) in the Charlotte area. The Canes don't resonate here - they ought to change the name to the Raleigh Hurricanes.
The 90-94 Flames were great - so much promise, only to break my heart every Spring. I often wonder what went wrong . . . bad coaching (Crisp and Risebrough benefiting from Badger Bob's legacy?), giving away our veterans for nothing (Ramage, McCrimmon, Mullen?) coupled with leadership retiring (McDonald, Peplinski?) maybe too much faith in our European prospects (Priakin, Johansson, Bergvist, Forslund?), or bad drafting? Probably a little bit of each.
Oh, well it was still good hockey.