Flames Nation: Jeff Marek mentioned that the Calgary Flames have been one in all three groups that have been additionally contemplating provide sheeting then Edmonton Oilers Dylan Holloway and Philip Broberg final offseason.
** NHLRumors.com transcription
“All of this once more, two different groups have been eager about attempting to get all the mandatory elements collectively to supply sheet Broberg and Holloway. And it sounds very very like one of many groups was the Calgary Flames.
Simply take into consideration that for one second. Whenever you assume the Battle of Alberta, when you concentrate on, like, the nastiness and the vitriol between these two groups, like my thoughts immediately goes again to, you recognize, the times of the 80s after they would compete and, you recognize, one group would win the Stanley Cup one yr, and the opposite would win it the opposite, the subsequent.
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Calgary was a extremely good group, and we take into consideration these video games between the 2 that might take about 4 and a half hours to play. You spend extra time selecting up gloves than asserting the objectives. And these the times of Dave Semenko and Marty McSorley and Don Jackson and Tim Hunter and Jim Poplinski and everyone else going at it on the ice. Respectable hatred between Edmonton and Calgary, the fan base didn’t get alongside, fights within the stands, and so forth.
And we quick ahead to the summer season of 2024 and that feud might have been performed out with provide sheets. And simply think about what that might have completed to the Battle of Alberta, and if there would have been any extra stress on Edmonton to attempt to maneuver their, maneuver their participant personnel as a way to match the provide, realizing that it was the provincial rival.
I nonetheless don’t know who the third group was. That will stay a white whale for me, we will see. But it surely sounds very very like Calgary was one of many different groups that have been in pursuit of the provide sheet for Philip Broberg and Dylan Holloway.”
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