Flames Nation: Jeff Marek stated that the Calgary Flames had been one in every of three groups that had 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 had been keen on attempting to get all the mandatory components 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. Once you assume the Battle of Alberta, when you consider, like, the nastiness and the vitriol between these two groups, like my thoughts instantly goes again to, you already know, the times of the 80s once they would compete and, you already know, one workforce would win the Stanley Cup one 12 months, and the opposite would win it the opposite, the subsequent.
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Calgary was a extremely good workforce, and we take into consideration these video games between the 2 that will take about 4 and a half hours to play. You spend extra time selecting up gloves than asserting the targets. 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. Legit hatred between Edmonton and Calgary, the fan base didn’t get alongside, fights within the stands, and so on.
And we quick ahead to the summer season of 2024 and that feud may have been performed out with provide sheets. And simply think about what that will have completed to the Battle of Alberta, and if there would have been any extra strain on Edmonton to attempt to maneuver their, maneuver their participant personnel as a way to match the provide, figuring out that it was the provincial rival.
I nonetheless don’t know who the third workforce was. That will stay a white whale for me, we will see. Nevertheless it sounds very very like Calgary was one of many different groups that had been in pursuit of the provide sheet for Philip Broberg and Dylan Holloway.”
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