The 2025 Offseason thread.

[stemit14]

Whatever the outcome of this season, I would really like the management/coaching staff to prioritize putting young players in positions to succeed and contribute. For example, with the current roster, I would like to see something like this:

Huberdeau-Kadri-Klapka
Posposil-Zary-Coronato
Honzek-Frost-Sharangovich
Farabee-Backlund-Coleman
Lomberg

Hanley-Weegar
Bahl-Andersson
Solovyov-Parekh

I would ideally like to see Andersson and Coleman traded for good value to open up spots in the lineup. Nut, even with thrr ref m on the roster, I’d like to see Klapka somewhere in the top 3 lines, Zary centering Coronato, Honzek in the top 3 lines (if he makes the team) and I’d like to see the number one powerplay unit have Parekh, Coronato and Zary on it.

I’m doubtful most (if any) of these things to happen since coaches tend to prefer vets rather than young players in most situations but it’s my hope that giving the young players these opportunities pays off early to convince the coaches to stick with it.

[Jiri Hrdina]

Originally Posted by stemit14

Whatever the outcome of this season, I would really like the management/coaching staff to prioritize putting young players in positions to succeed and contribute. For example, with the current roster, I would like to see something like this:

Huberdeau-Kadri-Klapka
Posposil-Zary-Coronato
Honzek-Frost-Sharangovich
Farabee-Backlund-Coleman
Lomberg

Hanley-Weegar
Bahl-Andersson
Solovyov-Parekh

I would ideally like to see Andersson and Coleman traded for good value to open up spots in the lineup. Nut, even with thrr ref m on the roster, I’d like to see Klapka somewhere in the top 3 lines, Zary centering Coronato, Honzek in the top 3 lines (if he makes the team) and I’d like to see the number one powerplay unit have Parekh, Coronato and Zary on it.

I’m doubtful most (if any) of these things to happen since coaches tend to prefer vets rather than young players in most situations but it’s my hope that giving the young players these opportunities pays off early to convince the coaches to stick with it.

Kinda lost ya there for a bit

[AC]

Originally Posted by FBI

Do you have a before and after pic?

From: https://www.thefaceoff.net/center-ic...0-bda91ffb74a4

[jayswin]

Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina

Kinda lost ya there for a bit

Just a slight stroke, that's all.

[jayswin]

Originally Posted by AC

From: https://www.thefaceoff.net/center-ic...0-bda91ffb74a4

Plus a cool look at the history of Flames centre ice designs here:

https://twitter.com/user/status/1956154703638880321

That's a hilarious logo chart there. Matthew Johnson has it as Olympic Saddledome from opening day until 1995, then Canadian Airlines Saddledome (for one season) before it became Pengrowth Saddledome in 1997 (three years before Pengrowth signed their 10 years naming rights deal). Then in 2000, the first year of the Pengrowth deal, the logo suddenly goes back to Canadian Airlines Saddledome, before going back to Pengrowth until 2009. What a mash up of foolishness, lol. An absolute failure of a centre ice logo history that should have been so easy.

For anyone wondering, the real naming rights changes were Olympic Saddledome until Canadian Airlines bought the rights during the 94'95 major renovations, followed by Pengrowth purchasing naming rights in the year 2000, then Scotiabank purchasing naming rights in October of 2010.

[jayswin]

He also says "First new centre ice design, more or less, since 1996; neat!" when there were three centre ice designs within that time that were more drastic than this simple reversing of red colouring from the logo to the ice in the circle. That isn't a new design, it's a reversal of colours. Who is this guy?

[AC]

Good catch, looks like he messed up compiling the logos a bit. I was just looking at the overall different styles of centre ice designs.

Either way, I dig the new design.