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04-06-2020, 08:33 AM
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#84
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Crash and Bang Winger
Join Date: Apr 2014
Location: Durham NC
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Keep 'em coming, BL! Telling you, these make my day. Just love reading the insights from the season.
One longtime Flame who I still think gets slightly forgotten about and overshadowed is Gary Suter. Largely due to the fact that Chopper became a mega star I have to think back in 1989 (Pre Stanley Cup) that Suter was probably the bigger name and I would think most people thought he would ultimately be the better player. A shame that he missed out on majority of the 89 Cup run with an injury (broken jaw, I think?) His offensive production was always consistent, but how was he considered defensively? He wasn't one of those Coffey/Housley D-men, right? I thought I remember him holding his own defensively, but would love to hear what some of the vets in here have to say.
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04-06-2020, 01:56 PM
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#85
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Crash and Bang Winger
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Originally Posted by EastCoastFlamesFan
One longtime Flame who I still think gets slightly forgotten about and overshadowed is Gary Suter. Largely due to the fact that Chopper became a mega star I have to think back in 1989 (Pre Stanley Cup) that Suter was probably the bigger name and I would think most people thought he would ultimately be the better player. A shame that he missed out on majority of the 89 Cup run with an injury (broken jaw, I think?) His offensive production was always consistent, but how was he considered defensively? He wasn't one of those Coffey/Housley D-men, right? I thought I remember him holding his own defensively, but would love to hear what some of the vets in here have to say.
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Regarding the perception of Suter at the time, that gets addressed pretty directly in the game 22 post that will appear here on Wednesday afternoon, so I'll let that speak for itself when it comes up.
More generally, here's a quote from that exact week that speaks of how perceptions can be wrong, especially of young players. It didn't really fit into any of these reports that I prepared at the time so I didn't include it, but it was part of a package that was provided on a weekly basis by a news source for inclusion in newsy-notes type stories.
Today's game 20 post coming at the regular time, 3 p.m. mountain
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04-06-2020, 02:56 PM
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#86
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Franchise Player
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Originally Posted by EastCoastFlamesFan
Keep 'em coming, BL! Telling you, these make my day. Just love reading the insights from the season.
One longtime Flame who I still think gets slightly forgotten about and overshadowed is Gary Suter. Largely due to the fact that Chopper became a mega star I have to think back in 1989 (Pre Stanley Cup) that Suter was probably the bigger name and I would think most people thought he would ultimately be the better player. A shame that he missed out on majority of the 89 Cup run with an injury (broken jaw, I think?) His offensive production was always consistent, but how was he considered defensively? He wasn't one of those Coffey/Housley D-men, right? I thought I remember him holding his own defensively, but would love to hear what some of the vets in here have to say.
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in 87-88 Suter and Sarge (who were d partners) both made the NHL 2nd all star team, Suter finished 3rd in Norris voting (behind Bourque and Stevens) with Sarge right behind him...now he definitely benefited from the steadying influence of one of the best but the Flames were very lucky to be able to roll that pair and Chopper with Macoun for those glory years
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04-06-2020, 03:35 PM
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#89
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Crash and Bang Winger
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Originally Posted by looooob
^^ interesting on Fetisov. of course his (and Makarov et al) debut would wait til the next season...of course the 88-89 season would see a Soviet player skating in NHL silks, but more on that later I assume
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Lurking in the future........unfortunately there's probably more anticipation in your single post (and this one magazine cover story) then there ever would be excitement about his performance on the ice. But like you said, we'll get to that sometime in early June. And realizing/typing that just sent a little chill through me.
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04-06-2020, 11:34 PM
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#90
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Crash and Bang Winger
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1:30 a.m. rambling....
I haven't added my own thoughts much in the first 20 games and have pretty much just stuck to the facts as originally written 31 years ago. But because the content is mostly forgotten by me, I'm essentially following along with everybody else and only read it when I'm going through it the night before to check that everything is formatted and in order while I add in some pictures to spice up the visuals. So there are often surprises for me too.
Something in the next game (21) really made me laugh though. Then I realized that it’s now the year 2020 so maybe it’s wrong to laugh at it. That lasted about 5 seconds before I started laughing again. So it will be in there when the post goes up at 3 p.m. (MT) on Tuesday. My editorial comment about it is ---- "I don't think Reggie Dunlop was in the building during this incident, so he probably should have just stuck to playing 'Lady of Spain'".
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04-08-2020, 08:08 AM
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#92
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Crash and Bang Winger
Join Date: Apr 2014
Location: Durham NC
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Love seeing the old Whalers clips. I grew up outside of Hartford and went to many games at the Civic Center. 89 was a bit before my time though--I was more 93-97.
Regardless, I always like checking the crowd as I always hope to see someone I know! That barn was (and still is) tiny and they didn't draw at all (although the box score above says 14K). In the 80s, my dad worked for an insurance company right next to the Civic Center and they had a corporate box so he went to tons of games in this era.
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04-08-2020, 08:13 AM
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#93
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Draft Pick
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Charlotte, NC
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Thanks for posting these. I am thoroughly enjoying reading these every morning. It's pretty cool to see how deep teams used to be (maybe not the Whalers, though). To me, the 21-team league was the golden age of hockey.
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04-08-2020, 08:53 AM
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#94
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Crash and Bang Winger
Join Date: Apr 2014
Location: Durham NC
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Originally Posted by Chris Biotti
Thanks for posting these. I am thoroughly enjoying reading these every morning. It's pretty cool to see how deep teams used to be (maybe not the Whalers, though). To me, the 21-team league was the golden age of hockey.
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I'm a HUGE fan of this era. Although my personal golden NHL era is the 89 season to the 94 season. Just a great run of seasons.
PS: Cool to see another Flames fan in NC! I thought I was the only one.
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04-08-2020, 10:01 AM
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#95
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Franchise Player
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Originally Posted by bobbylouie
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looking at these standings, Flames trucking along at a reasonable 4.5 goals for /game...the new look kings- 5.5
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04-08-2020, 10:10 AM
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#96
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Crash and Bang Winger
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FYI, today's 3pm (MT) game 22 post includes relevant info on the "how was Gary Suter perceived in those days?" question from a few days ago.
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04-08-2020, 11:41 AM
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#97
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2014
Location: Springbank
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LOL at Milbury attacking the organist.
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04-08-2020, 12:02 PM
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#98
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Franchise Player
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Originally Posted by GioforPM
LOL at Milbury attacking the organist.
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in reading the story now, this may be the only time I utter the statement "you know Mike Milbury may be right here"
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04-08-2020, 12:20 PM
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#99
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Crash and Bang Winger
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My mental image of it has him running up the aisle waving his shoe over his head, all the while trying to keep the beat with the song "Turning Japanese". It is a bit of a toe-tapper after all.
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