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Old 08-31-2014, 11:51 AM   #5
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Went with Rhettzky here. He had some big years at the end of his career and was a big difference maker with changing the attitude of the club, especially in 04. It's no coincidence that the club started to decline when he retired.

Rob Niedermayer was actually a very good player but had arguably his worst two seasons as a Calgary Flame, and considering we traded Val Bure for him (who at the time was one of our best offensive players) along with Jason Wiemer (who sucked) it actually weakened the club. Plus, when we traded him for the spare parts that were Mike Commodore and JF Damphousse it weakened the club yet again. Didn't do much to help us short term or long term. Kinda hate the whole Niedermayer period.

Jonas Hoglund had a great rookie season and then his game fell off the face of the earth. It took him several years in Montreal before he found his game again in Toronto and became quite the productive player for a few years before returning to Sweden. He was actually quite a decent forward, just didn't do enough for the Flames.

Chris Butler was an AHL player on an NHL team, and for some reason was here for more than one season. Not much more to say about it than that.
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