12-12-2008, 04:49 PM
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Some kinda newsbreaker!
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Learning Phaneufs skating style
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REPORT: Flames' AHL Affiliate Moving To Abbotsford
http://tsn.ca/nhl/story/?id=259452&l...=headlines_nhl
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According to CKNW 980AM in Vancouver, the cities new 7,500 seat facility TRADEX would be the new home of the Quad City Flames, the AHL affiliate of the Calgary Flames, for the 2009-10 season.
Abbotsford has been looking at four AHL clubs that have been on the brink.
According to sources, the city of Abbotsford is ready to offer travel subsidies and underwrite a portion of losses, if there are any at all.
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12-12-2008, 04:52 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Probably stuck driving someone somewhere
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http://forum.calgarypuck.com/showthread.php?t=65979
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Originally Posted by dcbc
I'm not sure if this is new news or not...if not, I apologize, I did search.
I have it on very good authority (yeah, yeah, I know that's pretty weak coming from a guy who has < 10 posts, but Ill continue nonetheless) that Abbotsford may be very close to landing either an expansion or relocated AHL franchise for its new 7500 seat arena complex.
http://newera.abbotsford.ca/Page648.aspx
I also know, for fact, that Ken King was in for a tour of the new building in the past couple of weeks.
Geographicaly speaking an AHL team in the Lower Mainland dosent seem to make much sense...but this is the info I have so thought Id pass it on. And if it did happen, it would probably make more sense for the Canucks to affiliate in Abbotsford and the Flames in Winnipeg?
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12-12-2008, 05:01 PM
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addition by subtraction
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Tulsa, OK
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not surprised.... disappointed though.
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12-12-2008, 06:09 PM
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Franchise Player
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I feel sorry for the QC guys that they no longer get hockey...
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12-12-2008, 09:12 PM
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Scoring Winger
Join Date: May 2007
Location: Quad Cities, IL (sort of)
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My job today is to do a bit of work and stay calm and not hurt anyone, including myself. That's it.
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12-12-2008, 09:15 PM
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Scoring Winger
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Moline, IL
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This may well be true....I'll be interested in hearing what Sutter has to say about it. Perhaps the QC owners asked to get out of the contract.
All that aside, the AHL has to approve this....and I find it difficult to believe that the other owners will allow this to happen. The closest team in the division is Manitoba,, and that's nearly 1400 miles away. Des Moines is next closest and it's 1921 miles....Houston is the closest in the south, and that's 2550 miles from Abbotsford.
Sources may say the city of Abbotsford is ready to offer travel subsidies and underwrite a portion of losses, if there are any at all....but I can't believe the city could afford their travel costs and to subsidize the costs of the other teams that have to travel a whole day or more just to play a game!! And there sure wouldn't be any road trips to or from Abbotsford!!!
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12-12-2008, 09:17 PM
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Scoring Winger
Join Date: May 2007
Location: Quad Cities, IL (sort of)
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My job today is to do a bit of work and stay calm and not hurt anyone, including myself. That's it.
-Ben Stein
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12-12-2008, 09:39 PM
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Scoring Winger
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Moline, IL
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Thanks, Hoody! Good stuff in those articles!!!
Kinda funny that it's now the Times that can get interviews with Holditch and Murphy, and the Dispatch can't get a call returned! Bring back Wendlund....
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12-12-2008, 09:46 PM
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Obscure Jersey Wiz
Join Date: May 2007
Location: The Marsh
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As they say - Don't let the door hitcha where the good Lord splitcha.
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12-15-2008, 11:13 PM
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#1 Goaltender
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Back in Calgary
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brings them a little closer, don't they have a whl team there? wonder how that will work out for them...
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12-16-2008, 04:58 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Vancouver
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Originally Posted by 3thirty
brings them a little closer, don't they have a whl team there? wonder how that will work out for them...
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Chilliwack has one and I am sure that any Abbotsford AHL team will draw from Chilliwack.
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Last edited by FlamesAddiction; 12-23-2008 at 10:40 AM.
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12-23-2008, 01:03 AM
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Took an arrow to the knee
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Toronto
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Aw, all the reliable QC guys that post here will go. 
Sad to see it.
Where will we get our info now?!
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12-23-2008, 12:26 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Income Tax Central
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This Post Has Been Distilled for the Eradication of Seemingly Incurable Sadness.
If you are flammable and have legs, you are never blocking a Fire Exit. - Mitch Hedberg
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12-23-2008, 02:40 PM
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CP's Fraser Crane
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Originally Posted by Locke
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Yeah, and Tanguay never asked for a trade either... 
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12-23-2008, 03:09 PM
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Lifetime Suspension
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Originally Posted by stang
Yeah, and Tanguay never asked for a trade either... |
And Pronger and Peca wanted to stay in Edmonton.. just had to get a jab in too.
But yah, I agree. Honestly, too much smoke for my liking.. but I'd welcome a move to Abbotsford, there would be a following, and there are plenty of Flames fans there who would be reports etc.
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01-16-2009, 12:14 PM
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Draft Pick
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Quad Cities, IL
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Came across this. Thought that I would post it.
http://www.arenadigest.com/news/inde...article_id=336
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Originally Posted by ArenaDigest.com 01/15/09
The experiment with AHL hockey in the Quad Cities will end after this season, as the Calgary Flames had decided to move their top affiliate to a new arena in Abbotsford, B.C.
It's not been officially announced and may not be announced until after the end of the season.
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01-16-2009, 12:21 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Tampa, Florida
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Originally Posted by beermoney
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yeah no source. Its like saying the Yotes are moving to the qc for better ownership... Its worth as the same as I stated.
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01-16-2009, 12:36 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Vancouver
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Originally Posted by MrMastodonFarm
And Pronger and Peca wanted to stay in Edmonton.. just had to get a jab in too.
But yah, I agree. Honestly, too much smoke for my liking.. but I'd welcome a move to Abbotsford, there would be a following, and there are plenty of Flames fans there who would be reports etc.
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Makes me wish I still lived in Chilliwack... I'd go to every game.
Of course, assuming this has any legs to it.
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01-16-2009, 01:19 PM
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addition by subtraction
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Tulsa, OK
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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
Makes me wish I still lived in Chilliwack... I'd go to every game.
Of course, assuming this has any legs to it.
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i think this is based off that same info we debated a month or so ago. i hope they stay in qc, but understand if they were to leave. though i still think abbottsford is about the least likely place for a team to end up.
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Originally Posted by New Era
This individual is not affluent and more of a member of that shrinking middle class. It is likely the individual does not have a high paying job, is limited on benefits, and has to make due with those benefits provided by employer.
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01-16-2009, 01:50 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Income Tax Central
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I am usually one of the biggest proponents of "where theres smoke theres fire."
But I just dont see this happening. It seems very reactionary and Sutter and King aren't typically knee-jerk reaction kind of people.
Essentially, I dont think they're going to pull out of the QC so quickly, the experiment hasnt yet run its course.
It just seems rather hasty from a pair of usually patient people.
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