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As much as you and I don't see eye-to-eye on many things, I definitely agree with this.

Thanks for this, cross. I don't much care for the Stone signing myself (don't think he was that much of an influence for Brodie last year at all). I just think there's a huge difference between not liking something based on numbers and fancy stats, and taking a "let's trade off the entire Stockton team for Bantam players because that's how long it'll take for anyone to break the Flames line-up" mentality.

If had the answers, I'd be an NHL GM. Why don't you try being optimistic and hopeful?

My my my, you are just a little doom-and-gloomer, aren't you? Not even willing to entertain the notion that something else (either immediate or mid-term) could potentially be in the works?

As much as I got excited over seeing this amazing Christmas gift for Tkachuk, I fully admit I was disappointed to watch the slow-motion replay and find out that Doughty was able to slide under it. I agree....Scott Stevens would have been so proud of a hit like that. Rob Kerr on Sportsnet960 said he was surprised at just how much Tkachuk was in Doughty's head during the game. I wonder how much looking-over-his-shoulder he'll be doing the next time these two teams get together? I mean, Johnny Freakin Gaudreau even laid a body check on him fer cryin out loud!

What is it about him you don't like? I haven't seen anything to excessively hate on him about, and think he's right where he should be....3rd-pairing D.

Been my new avatar for about a week now

Not seeing any mudslinging, just a simple question. Now, everyone play nice, or I'll send you all to your rooms for a time-out.

This is, without question, the only opinion I can completely, unequivocally, 100% agree with on this entire site.

Hello, LAKid, and welcome to the Calgary Flames forums. As I am sure you are aware (as our Message Board's Rules and Guidelines were clearly posted on the Introductory Welcome forum where you initially signed-up from), trolling is expressly against the rules of this site: I feel the Moderators and Admins here have been generous and lenient on our interpretation of trolling when it comes to you and your posts. For my part, I interpret trolling as commenting for the sake of commenting, and offering nothing to add to the conversation at hand. Most, if not all, of our membership love a good debate, and not everyone will agree with everyone else (just ask JJGallow and The_People1), but good debates and conversations only occur when contributions are more than just "Come on".....or "As Smokey the Bear said Hey Boo boo , where there's smoke there's fire"... Please feel free to add more substance to your conversations. Failure to do so may result in your contributions being monitored and diminished without further warning or notice. Enjoy your time here, hop on The Bandwagon for a pint or two (I believe there's been some new staff just recently hired), heck I'll even buy the first round. But please.....contribute more that just random pot-shots and "neener-neeners".

This goes for everybody:

I moved all the woulda-shoulda-coulda non-goaltender talk to the The Rebuild Over thread. Please at least try to keep it on topic, folks.

Jermain Franklin posted this on Instagram on Nov 30, 2016

(re: bolded) then you really haven't been paying attention to, nor been affected by, the current economic climate or the news in this city for the past 2 years.