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Originally Posted by AustinL_NHL
I've said it before and I'll say it again. If you don't like Blasty, you're simply wrong.
Flames fans wanted Blasty back. Many of us have been campaigning for Blasty to return for years. Flames management and ownership heard our calls and gave us what we wanted.
My favorite part is Popowich saying he wants/plans for Blasty to be a permanent fixture moving forward.
Blasty forever
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Again, I'll do you the credit of assuming you're joking, as it would be insulting to believe you would seriously believe in this embarrassingly bad take.
I would wager "most Flames fans" don't even know what "Blasty" is without further context. (It was always "the flaming booger horse" to me.) Outside of the cadre of people who were little kids in the late '90s and early '00s I can't imagine anyone having fond memories of it. "Blasty" is to the Flames as the "Fishsticks" jersey is to the Islanders: a cynical attempt at increasing merchandise revenues at a time when expansion teams were cleaning the clocks of the established teams in the sales departments.
Frankly Flames management have been extremely inept at making new jerseys for the last 25 years. The only "hit" they had with a new design was the '03 "Black C" jersey; everything else they've ever done has been a swing-and-a-miss. The only smart decision they made in the last 15 years or so had been to bring the original jersey design back. There was a league-wide edict to participate in this "Reverse Retro" gobbledy####, so I get that the Flames' staff were painted into a corner and had to come up with
something, but if they embrace "Blasty" going forward they're even more incompetent than I thought.