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Originally Posted by Flaming Homer

I could be wrong but wouldn’t the second group be guys who haven’t cleared quarantine yet since arriving in Calgary?

Also Johnny is so obviously gone back home as soon as he gets the chance. Any one who thinks otherwise is delusional.

I was under the understanding the groups were based on different stages of quarantine and back to play as well.

There's also different levels of on ice access, so I was also wondering if the different groups might be different game speeds (which is kinda similar, but different than conditioning).

Originally Posted by Bingo

I know that was tongue in cheek ... but as a fyi I did hear the Flames took the blades off of each player's skates, put the latest inline tech on them and sent them out so guys could work with their own skates.

If most (no other) teams didn't do this, it could be a huge advantage.

I was actually wondering if the Flames had the equipment manager imitate the skate boots as a roller blades with maybe custom rollers to imitate the blade sharpness and styles to imitate the boot feeling in the roller blades. I agree could be an advantage.

But if they literally took the player's normal boot and retrofitted them as roller blades... that's pretty darn cool and I didn't even know you could do that.