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Opening night of the 2008-2009 season against the Vancouver Canucks is now upon us. The puck has dropped, the game is in the books and the butterflies can stop their churning. The Flames have struggled every season in recent memory getting out of the gate, and expecting anything else out of tonight’s contest might have been a stretch. Yeah, actually you can bank on that..
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See if this reminds you of an old television show …

“Calgary Flames, an under achieving hockey club. A team challenged in a crucial game seven shows up barely alive. Gentlemen, we can rebuild them. We may not have the cap space. Yet we have the capability to build the city’s first “past the first round” hockey club in four years. The 2008-09 Calgary Flames will be that hockey club. Better than they were before. Younger, bigger, faster.”

You buy that?
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FLAMES DEFENSEMAN RHETT WARRENER PLACED ON LONG TERM INJURY STATUS

For Immediate Release
Thursday, October 9, 2008

Calgary, AB – Calgary Flames General Manager Darryl Sutter announced today that defenseman Rhett Warrener has been placed on Long Term Injury status.

Warrener missed three games during the preseason due to an injury sustained on September 26th. This injury, combined with extensive damage from previous seasons, has made it impossible for Warrener to start the regular season.

Long Term Injury status is available to players who will be unavailable for at least 10 NHL regular season games and 24 calendar days.

Flames forward Dustin Boyd has been recalled from the Quad City Flames (AHL).

Hot on the heals of a brutal showing in Vancouver, the Flames were back at home to take on the Oilers to close out the 2008 preseason. The Flames, apparently decimated by a brutal case of the flu, iced a largely veteran lineup missing a large number of key cogs while the Oilers used the game to continue to assess some of their younger talent.

The Oilers came out of the gate with a lead in play, Andrew Cogliano managed to eek out a penalty shot that he failed to score on, but it would be the Flames who ended up on the board first with a weak wrister from Jarome Iginla. The Oilers would score a weak goal of their own to tie it up and over the rest of the first and the start of the second the Flames would completely fall apart with turnovers on routine clearing attempts resulting in the puck in the back of the net.
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FLAMES REASSIGN GREENTREE, PELECH AND SUTTER TO QUAD CITY FLAMES

For Immediate Release
Thursday, October 2, 2008

Calgary, AB - Calgary Flames General Manager Darryl Sutter announced today that forwards Kyle Greentree and Brett Sutter along with defenseman Matt Pelech have been reassigned to Quad City (AHL).

The Flames now have 29 players remaining at training camp: three goalies, nine defenseman and 17 forwards.
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