I am still trying to process what is potentially happening here? I can understand that Johnny wanted to leave, makes sense in some ways because of the rumors from him years ago. Like it or not, they did end up being valid.
Now we are talking about Chucky, who a lot believe should be the next long term captain? Why are players literally bolting from Calgary? There has to be more than this in a lot of ways. I don't buy the weather and the arena situation. Calgary's facilities for an athlete perspective I don't believe are poor and if they are, we can mitigate and improve that. The fan's experience is not the same as the players experience. Weather? Plenty of NHL cities have terrible weather in the winter.
This isn't like the 90's where we couldn't afford to keep players due to the costs and the escalating salaries. This seems different.
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