Gameday blog: Calgary Flames

Just returned from the morning skate, where I was highly entertained by the Calgary newspapers - there’s some good hockey writers up here. The Flames are coming off a 7-4 loss to the Red Wings and the papers were great — calling it the “Motown massacre” and “Mauling in Michigan.” While the Thrashers last loss to Edmonton was probably just as bad, I guess we let them off the hook compared to these papers. Craig Conroy called the loss to the Red Wings, the ‘final slap in the face’ in George Johnson’s story in the Calgary Herald.

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