Keenan was the coach and that Ramholt one shift then benched him. Adrian Aucoin and Rhett Warrener were both out with injuries and we were already thin, Keenan probably didn't want to play the kid as it is. David was in the lineup and only played five minutes. Anders Erikson almost played 30 minutes in a shocking loss.
Ramholt's relationship soured with the Flames when he decided to go back to Switzerland instead of continuing in North America after one year in the QMJHL.
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What the hell does this have to do with Sutter. Sutter selected him, and called him up. If anything it was Keenan being petty. It's not like Marr st.louis who went on to win a bunch of awards after the Flames dumped him. Absolute bush league thread throwing shade at a Flames legend.
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George W Bush was President during these events. Facebook was an exclusive club for people with college emails. Twitter was a texting service. iPhone didn't exist yet. This past summer's draft class was just being born. Some of us were still teenagers
Also for perspective fans in their 20s now don't even remember the Feaster and Burke era drama like the Ryan O'Reilly fiasco and Weisbrod nonsense.
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The Swiss league is quite lucrative, and living in Switzerland means you're experiencing one of the best quality of life countries on earth.
(If you haven't been, I recommend it)
So, you can pull 6 figures doing that, or play in Lowell, Omaha, or Quad Cities for five figures. And maybe get shot, and 100% have to deal with American yokels.
That comparison is perhaps why bubble Swiss prospects are exactly that... bubble.
Don't get me started on Reto Berra!
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I still can't believe he gave away Lydman for nothing.
This one led me down a rabbit hole as I always had fond memories of Lydman aka LOOD-man.
A member of the quadruple silver club!!
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Having lost the Olympic final (2006), World Championship final (1998, 1999), World Cup final (2004) and Stanley Cup Finals (2004), Lydman and his fellow countrymen Jarkko Ruutu and Sami Salo (Kimmo Timonen also belonged to the club before winning the Stanley Cup at the end of his career (2015)), are the only members of the unofficial "Quadruple Silver Club", a somewhat humorous reference to the Triple Gold Club and the unofficial "Quadruple Gold Club" for players who have won the most important championships available to the sport.
As people continue poking holes in Darryl Sutter’s legacy, I thought it’d be fitting to revisit one of the more head-scratching stories from his tenure: our 2003 2nd-round pick (39th overall), Tim Ramholt.
Sutter rarely valued 2nd-rounders, so there was genuine excitement about finally holding onto one and watching Ramholt’s development. Fast-forward to the 2007–08 season - Tim finally gets the call to play his first NHL game.
What happens? He gets a single shift. One. He’s out there for a goal against, and that’s it. Sutter, in all his wisdom, decides that’s enough to close the book. No second shift. No chance to redeem himself. No shot to prove he belonged.
That one shift, one minus, and it was over. Tim Ramholt never played another NHL game.
I can’t imagine how crushing that must have felt for him. And frankly, it’s a brutal look for the Flames. Whatever you think of Ramholt’s upside, burying a young player like that after literally one shift just reeks of Sutter’s trademark stubbornness.
The pettiness of Darryl Sutter really knew no bounds.
