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Originally Posted by Lanny_McDonald
Johnny should have signed with Phoenix. Playing in a 5,000 seat barn, just like college. And talk about playing in anonymity? You can't be anything but anonymous as a hockey player in Phoenix.
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Yeah, We're saving the bank for Auston Matthews
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Originally Posted by just_tim
I think all this is well stated by Salim Valji on TSN. JG made us feel the butt of a joke. For a fan base already conditioned for bad things to happen, this is not insignificant. We were spurned by Fox who went on to win a Norris. Bowed to Iginla’s wishes and did not maximize value. Khadri veto’d a trade. O’Reilly signing was a total mess. Oldest building in the league and then when it’s signed and done, that rug is pulled. 2004 - “It was in”. Won’t even detail all the questionable free agent signings that looked good on paper and then bombed. Add all this along with (lack of) playoff success since 1989, the fact that Canadian teams in general can’t win a cup, or supposedly attract non-Canadian talent, this episode caps it. The solution for many is to quit looking at American players. So, in an effort to spite ourselves, we should self-limit our access to some of the best available talent? Many say we lost him for nothing. That is completely false as we gained a massively valuable amount of cap space and in flat-tax world that, used correctly that is beyond valuable. The worry is all about the above and the ability to use the cap space to attract talent. The way JG handled it all was less than optimal. That speaks to his character, not Calgary’s. Time to move along.
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Have you tried adopting a team in the Arizona desert in 2000 when The Flames were going to Portland? Then moving there seconds after their owner files BK and live through 12+ years of uncertainty while also being a fan of The Flames?