08-25-2025, 04:58 PM
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All I can get
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The Rico Fata Award!
Name the biggest surprise Flames player waived to start the season, and will someone claim him, and if so who?
I say Daniil Miromanov and that he clears.
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08-25-2025, 05:02 PM
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#3
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Vancouver
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I think there are a few candidates.
Kirkland, Solovyov, Cooley, and Kerins.
I am not saying they would be claimed, just that there would be a chance.
FWIW, last year the following players were claimed off of waivers just before the season started:
Schwindt
Lavoie
Ian Mitchell
Kahkonen
Patera
Reimer
Ludvig
While most players clear and it is fairly low risk to put a player on waivers just before the season starts, there are always a few that get claimed unexpectedly.
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Last edited by FlamesAddiction; 08-25-2025 at 05:20 PM.
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08-25-2025, 05:18 PM
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First Line Centre
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Jake Bean
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08-25-2025, 05:28 PM
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#5
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Scoring Winger
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Originally Posted by BigThief
Jake Bean
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Yes please! Such a nepo baby.
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08-25-2025, 05:35 PM
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#6
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First Line Centre
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Quote:
Originally Posted by PepsiFree
These awards become increasingly esoteric
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Says the guy wearing a participation ribbon on a message board.
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08-25-2025, 05:36 PM
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Franchise Player
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Quote:
Originally Posted by PepsiFree
These awards become increasingly esoteric
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There should be an award for that. Any players receiving more than two votes are out of the running.
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08-25-2025, 05:50 PM
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#8
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Franchise Player
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Rasmus...
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08-25-2025, 06:36 PM
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GOAT!
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I can’t imagine Cotsco getting the boot. I think he has tradable value, plus he’s such an awesome dude and he just re-signed.
This is kind of a weird time. Usually I can think of at least one guy I’d want to see cut, but not this time. I don’t even mind Bean as much as others do.
Edit: Even more weird is this would typically be a thread where I’d say something dumb like “Huberdeau” but I don’t even mind him these days. It’s not like his salary is in the way anymore, and as long as he keeps reinventing himself into a tougher non-perimeter player, I actually want him on the team. It also helps that he’s handled everything as well as he has and seems like a really genuine guy.
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08-25-2025, 06:43 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Calgary, AB
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Devin Cooley.
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08-25-2025, 06:47 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: Calgary
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Ya I think Cooley and he gets claimed.
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08-25-2025, 07:11 PM
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#12
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First Line Centre
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Originally Posted by Johnny Makarov
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Don't be stupid, okay guy?
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08-25-2025, 07:20 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: Ontario
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Quote:
Originally Posted by FanIn80
I can’t imagine Cotsco getting the boot. I think he has tradable value, plus he’s such an awesome dude and he just re-signed.
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He's a nice story, but Kirkland a long way from having any actual trade value imo.
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08-25-2025, 07:23 PM
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Franchise Player
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Originally Posted by BigThief
Don't be stupid, okay guy?
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Calm your tits bro!
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08-25-2025, 08:08 PM
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Franchise Player
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I get the feeling Kerins is going to go on waivers. I hope he doesn't. If he does he will get claimed by either PIT, or TBL.
I could also see Pachal being a surprise waiver. Huska didn't seem like a huge fan of his down the stretch. With him being a healthy scratch for 6 games in March. Pretty sure he would get claimed as well.
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08-25-2025, 09:32 PM
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Powerplay Quarterback
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Strathmore
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Johnny and big thief, you are grounded....go to your rooms.
Thief, don't be a tool.
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08-26-2025, 10:55 PM
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Franchise Player
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Quote:
Originally Posted by FanIn80
I can’t imagine Cotsco getting the boot. I think he has tradable value, plus he’s such an awesome dude and he just re-signed.
This is kind of a weird time. Usually I can think of at least one guy I’d want to see cut, but not this time. I don’t even mind Bean as much as others do.
Edit: Even more weird is this would typically be a thread where I’d say something dumb like “Huberdeau” but I don’t even mind him these days. It’s not like his salary is in the way anymore, and as long as he keeps reinventing himself into a tougher non-perimeter player, I actually want him on the team. It also helps that he’s handled everything as well as he has and seems like a really genuine guy.
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He turned himself from a fancy guy into a power forward last year. Full respect for that.
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08-26-2025, 10:58 PM
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Franchise Player
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Quote:
Originally Posted by gvitaly
I get the feeling Kerins is going to go on waivers. I hope he doesn't. If he does he will get claimed by either PIT, or TBL.
I could also see Pachal being a surprise waiver. Huska didn't seem like a huge fan of his down the stretch. With him being a healthy scratch for 6 games in March. Pretty sure he would get claimed as well.
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Not sure why Huska seemed to chooss Bean over Pachal. I love Pachal. Seems like a tough hombre.
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08-27-2025, 12:04 AM
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Powerplay Quarterback
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Originally Posted by Goriders
Not sure why Huska seemed to chooss Bean over Pachal. I love Pachal. Seems like a tough hombre.
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Bean getting more games down the stretch probably had something to do with Bean still being somewhat of a higher potential reclamation project.
If the coaching staff can work magic to get Bean back to where he was before his shoulder and groin injuries in 2023, they potentially have a puck moving dman that can play both sides and fit into the #4/5 slot on the back-end. Whereas, nothing about Pachal's game suggests that he'll be more than a reliable, physical bottom pairing dman.
I'm not saying it's right thing to do for Huska to have played Bean more than Pachal during the stretch, but I can see why they'd give Bean a little more leeway to try and "find his game"
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08-27-2025, 08:17 AM
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#20
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Franchise Player
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Came for the dancing Fata. Leaving disappointed.
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