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Originally Posted by DuckSauce
Lots of awesome posts in this thread but really appreciated this. Some of these were before my time - a few people mentioned the dark days of the Young Guns and getting lots of free tickets..that was my youth and I wouldn’t have been old enough to understand all of this at the time.
I don’t think I knew that Housley was who we got for MacInnis. I always wondered how a small Canadian market got an American Defenceman who put up 1232 career points.. even stranger that we got him twice in that era. What was the story behind getting him the second time? I remember my dad calling him Phil Lousy.
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If you bought a 12 pack of coke at Safeway, you got a coupon for a $5 Flames ticket. Did that a lot while at University (where I was literally the ONLY student on campus with a Flames Ballcap - in my 4th year, I saw another one, and actually spoke to the dude as a result). Anyway, $5 entry, and then go sit in the bowl because it was empty.
Oh - and it was
Phil the Thrill but not in a good way.