[JohnnyB]

I started discussing the Flames online at the boards on flames.com or something like that and found CP from there some time in the early 2000's. I do remember the changeover from the old board to the new CP, but I don't think I was around more than a year or two before that. The discussions on here just seemed more mature and knowledgeable than the other board, and that won me over despite feeling a bit intimidated by some of the discussion when I first joined.

My engagement has waxed and waned over the years, and it has shifted dramatically from being hockey centered towards time spent on the OT forum. In the many years overseas, this board has been like a steady connection back to Canada that has outlasted many of the friendships I left behind.

It's a legitimately good community on here. In some ways, I feel like this is more what the internet was supposed to be.