It’s taken a little out of context too or at least misses the flip side Lucic presented in the interview in which he says his family really truly became Calgarians and albertans, tried to get out to the mountains and the nature as much as possible and how he loved the people and the fans. Credited the flames for helping him reconsider hanging them up and while some of that can be attributed to Geoff Ward for sure I do think the time in Calgary helped Lucic in many ways and he came across as super appreciative of his time.
The arena is a known eye sore, I mean Weegar made no bones about it, but he still signed his deal as did Huby and while too I acknowledge they were trying to maximize their negotiating strengths and positions I do think that if they didn’t want to be in Calgary they wouldn’t have come.
At the end of the day lots of players have picked cowtown as their destination and I think once the arena is built that is coinciding with the growth of the next core that we will be fine when it comes to league perception amongst players and desires to play in Calgary.
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