Flames trade for Freddie Hamilton

[GreenLantern2814]

Originally Posted by Locke

Okay, fair enough. I thought that his drug use was a condition of his depression caused by his low perceived value but it was a long time ago so I'm not entirely sure.

It's a tragedy regardless, eh?

Heroin is such a sad, scary drug.

Also, the Vipers said they were going to auction the bats off for charity and then sold them to Ripley's Believe it or Not? for $10K? When they wouldn't trade Odom for $1000 cash because they didn't want to look financially unstable.

Good riddance to that open sore of an organization.

[Vulcan]

Originally Posted by Locke

Kris Draper! Right. Forgot about that one.

The baseball ones are minor leagues but the hockey ones were NHL I believe.

Back in the day the NHL was much less professional. Sometimes I miss those days. Not the hockey, but the hilarity.

Imagine being traded for a team bus. Not a good one.

The player traded for a bus happened in the WHL.

Following two seasons of junior A hockey in Kelowna, Martin was added to the Seattle Breakers' reserve list. He chose instead to gain an education while playing at the University of Denver in 1982–83.[1] Martin did make it known that he would play junior for his hometown team, the Victoria Cougars, however.[2] The Breakers wished to trade Martin, and were in need of a new team bus. Coincidentally, the Cougars had an extra bus that they purchased from the defunct Spokane Flyers franchise, but as they were unwilling to pay the taxes and fees required to bring the bus into Canada, it was sitting in storage in the United States.[1] As a result, on January 19, 1983, the Cougars traded the bus to the Breakers for Martin's playing rights and $35,000.[2] Martin earned the nickname "Bussey" for the remainder of his career.[1

[Locke]

They nicknamed him 'Bussey.'

Wow. Just....thats gotta hurt.

And yeah, the guy traded for bats was a tragedy.

[powderjunkie]

The Vipers offered Odom to the Laredo Broncos for a Bronco player, but that player refused to move to Calgary. The Broncos then offered $1000 cash for Odom, but the Vipers felt cash deals made the team appear financially unstable. The teams then came to an agreement on May 20 to exchange Odom for ten Prairie Sticks maple bats, worth a total of $665.

The ten bats that the Vipers received for Odom were never used, and the Vipers planned to auction them off for charity, but Ripley's Believe It or Not! purchased them for $10,000.

Pretty decent ROI in the end!

[Pointman]

Originally Posted by Da_Chief

Pretty sure Jeff and Anson are not brothers. I think they are cousins.

Flames tend to get worse cousin too, like David Moss, cousin of Phil Kessell.

[GreenLantern2814]

Originally Posted by powderjunkie

Pretty decent ROI in the end!

Yeah. Why make a small gesture to memorialize a young man who lost his life to an insidious substance when you can profit from his death.

[JJ1532]

Not sure if this info has been shared or not, but we basically picked up Hamilton for nothing.

http://www.generalfanager.com/draftp...d=all&team=all

According to generalfanager, the condition of the 7th going to Colorado was that he has/had to play 18 NHL games this season. Looks almost certainly like that won't be happening, so we get to keep our 7th.

[bob-loblaw]

Originally Posted by JJ1532

Not sure if this info has been shared or not, but we basically picked up Hamilton for nothing.

http://www.generalfanager.com/draftp...d=all&team=all

According to generalfanager, the condition of the 7th going to Colorado was that he has/had to play 18 NHL games this season. Looks almost certainly like that won't be happening, so we get to keep our 7th.

Trying to even out what it cost us for his brother as a BOGO.

[MarkGio]

Hamilton hasn't been bad in the AHL either. If the Flames forward group was more banged up, Hamilton would've got his cup of coffee

[Gaudfather]

Originally Posted by bob-loblaw

Trying to even out what it cost us for his brother as a BOGO.

Or as we used to say during happy hour - a twofer!