08-11-2009, 08:36 AM
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Olympic Saddledome
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Vegas drops Flames affiliation
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08-11-2009, 08:59 AM
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Atomic Nerd
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Calgary
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And they join the Coyotes and San Antonio Rampage...
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08-11-2009, 08:59 AM
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Powerplay Quarterback
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No big deal but I bet every guy is crying cuz the women in vegas are Mmmmmmm Mmmm Mmmmmmmmmmmm.
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08-11-2009, 08:59 AM
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Franchise Player
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Big-ish news, probably a blow to Ken King's move to Abbotsford
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08-11-2009, 09:15 AM
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Calgary
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Ducay
Big-ish news, probably a blow to Ken King's move to Abbotsford
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"Calgary has been great to work with and I know coach (Glen) Gulutzan always said great things about the Flames when he was here too," Mougenel said. "But both sides felt that it just wasn't financially viable anymore to align us with an American Hockey League team all the way in Vancouver."
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08-11-2009, 09:16 AM
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Calgary
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Funny wording in there: "This year would have been the inaugural season for the Flames' new AHL squad, the Abbotsford Heat, which moved from Quad Cities, Ill."
Reads like losing the Wranglers finishes the Heat as well.
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08-11-2009, 09:38 AM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Singapore
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I can't say I'm all that surprised. Never heard anything all summer about the Wranglers, apart from Gulutzan leaving the team, and looking on their website a few weeks ago they had Chris Kreizner signed and that was it so far as news was concerned. Thanks Wranglers for your support of the Calgary Flames... does this mean we are going to lose our Calgarypuck Wranglers thread icon?
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08-11-2009, 10:39 AM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: May 2006
Location: @HOOT250
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Well the Salmon Kings just lost a few ticket sales from me.
I would think the driving and flying time between Vegas/Quad and Vegas/Van would be pretty close in distance. Oh well...
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Not at all, as I've said, I would rather start with LA over any of the other WC playoff teams. Bunch of underachievers who look good on paper but don't even deserve to be in the playoffs.
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08-11-2009, 01:12 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Victoria
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Quote:
Originally Posted by HOOT
Well the Salmon Kings just lost a few ticket sales from me.
I would think the driving and flying time between Vegas/Quad and Vegas/Van would be pretty close in distance. Oh well...
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Me too. I have no desire to go cheer on the never-will-bes of the Canucks prospect core.
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08-11-2009, 03:17 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Vancouver
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Well, from their standpoint, it probably makes some sense. Being affiliated with Phoenix could draw more interest as it's geographically closer. More people from Phoenix probably visit Vegas than people from Calgary or Abbotsford.
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08-11-2009, 03:48 PM
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Jordan!
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: Chandler, AZ
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The Phoenix/Calgary thing continues to blow my brains.
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08-11-2009, 03:55 PM
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Account Removed @ User's Request
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Calgary
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So where will our new ECHL affiliate be?
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08-11-2009, 04:37 PM
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Has Towel, Will Travel
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Quote:
Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
Well, from their standpoint, it probably makes some sense. Being affiliated with Phoenix could draw more interest as it's geographically closer. More people from Phoenix probably visit Vegas than people from Calgary or Abbotsford.
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There are hockey fans in Phoenix?
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08-11-2009, 05:37 PM
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Powerplay Quarterback
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maybe we wont have one this year.. remember the years wehre we had to share an AHL team with Carolina before we moved to Omaha and became the Knights... or at least i think it was Carolinas AHL team.
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08-11-2009, 07:52 PM
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Self Imposed Exile
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Calgary
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Quote:
Originally Posted by hkstylez
maybe we wont have one this year.. remember the years wehre we had to share an AHL team with Carolina before we moved to Omaha and became the Knights... or at least i think it was Carolinas AHL team.
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B4 Omaha I thought St. John Flames was 100% ours?
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08-11-2009, 08:02 PM
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In the Sin Bin
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The Flames suspended the Saint John Flames in 2003, and reached an agreement to send some of their prospects to the Lowell Lock Monsters, Carolina's affiliate, in 2004 and 2005 before resurrecting our dormant franchise in 2006 in Omaha.
As it is, given we only send four or five guys down to the ECHL in any given year, we could get away with simply loaning those players to various ECHL teams as necessary.
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08-11-2009, 08:08 PM
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Franchise Player
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Jetsfan
So where will our new ECHL affiliate be?
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Currently all the ECHL teams have affiliates, however a number of them are split so for the upcoming season the Flames may have to look into a partnership. Next season the Columbia Inferno are returning to the ECHL with a new arena and could be a potential partner at that point.
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08-11-2009, 08:32 PM
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addition by subtraction
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Tulsa, OK
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i had to sign in just to thank that post. made me chuckle a lot!
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08-12-2009, 10:43 AM
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Franchise Player
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They can get acquainted with Coyotes prospects before the big team moves there in five years.
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