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Gaudreau fined for diving
by George Malik on 03/10/17 at 05:24 PM ET
From the NHL:
FLAMES' GAUDREAU FINED FOR DIVING/EMBELLISHMENT
NEW YORK (March 10, 2017) -- Calgary Flames forward Johnny Gaudreau has been fined $2,000 as supplementary discipline under NHL Rule 64 (Diving/Embellishment), the National Hockey League announced today.
NHL Rule 64 is designed to bring attention to and more seriously penalize players (and teams) who repeatedly dive and embellish in an attempt to draw penalties. Fines are assessed to players and head coaches on a graduated scale outlined below:
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Tags: calgary+flames, johnny+gaudreau
No news is no news regarding Monahan, Gaudreau
by George Malik on 07/28/16 at 09:52 AM ET
From the Calgary Herald's Kristen Odland:
But when the news involves the Calgary Flames' two biggest stars — Sean Monahan and Johnny Gaudreau — and their imminent contract extensions, it's pretty hard not to wonder …
"No real update there," said Flames general manager Brad Treliving, addressing the subject at a Wednesday news conference to introduce goaltender Brian Elliott to the local media. "We'll continue to work away at it. We wanted to focus (Wednesday) on Brian and (Elliott's wife) Amanda and welcome them to Calgary. But we'll continue to work away at it."
It's been Treliving's answer to everybody's favourite question since the 2015-16 regular season ended — "What is happening with Monahan and Gaudreau?"
Tags: brad+treliving, calgary+flames, johnny+gaudreau, sean+monahan
Elliott finally gets his chance to establish himself as a #1 goaltender
From the Canadian Press:
The temperatures outside are scorching, but new Flames goaltender Brian Elliott is eager to get back in the rink. After years of fending off challengers for his job in St. Louis, Elliott has big expectations entering next season as the unquestioned No. 1 in Calgary.
"This is a big one for me so I'm really looking forward to it," Elliott said when introduced to the media on Wednesday. "Sometimes you want that extra bit of summer to relax and enjoy your downtime but now I've gotten really excited to get the pads back on and ready to get back at it."
The Flames acquired the 31-year-old native of Newmarket, Ont., from St. Louis on the night of the NHL draft for a second-round pick. Elliott and his wife were on vacation in Croatia at the time.
"When I got the news, it was 2 o'clock in the morning and I saw my phone lighting up. I didn't go back to sleep after that, I was so excited," he said.
Tags: brian+elliott, calgary+flames, st.+louis+blues
Oilers coach Todd McLellan fumes after loss to Flames
Edmonton Oilers coach Todd McLellan had some strong words to share after the Oilers' 5-0 loss to Calgary on Saturday night:
Reporter: "After an embarrassing and humiliating result, and to what extent, given the circumstances, to what extent are you concerned that it might be replicated in a game on Wednesday that the fans are coming to celebrate?"
Todd McLellan: "Well, I'll answer the first part of your question: I don't know if there's a number big enough or how to describe how disappointing that result is. We've been together for 200 days, and, um, talked a lot about competing, and working hard, and holding your hand, and showing up, and we get that. And that's the exact kind of crap we're trying to eradicate from this group.
"So you work hard, you climb and you climb and you at least get some foundation and you give it all back in one night. And we were out-shot, we were out-hit, out-scored, we were out-faceoffed, out penalty-killed, our shift length was terrible, they played four games in six nights and we're going to go for 55-second shifts?"
"We turned a puck over 1:10 into a shift and cheated on a change...We had a change for a center that happened to be two zones away...I don't know how it could happen."
"I guess when you sum it all up like that, that's really disappointing, isn't it? And that's the exact attitude and bullshit that we're trying to eliminate here. And we see it after 200 days. Disappointing...But at least the good news is we know where to go and practice, because we've got to establish a work ethic this week."
Reporter: "And how important is it for this team to give--this town--a game to celebrate..."
McLellan: "Well It's damn important, after that crap? Damn, damn important that there's an effort. Forget about the win and the loss, but just the effort. That's frickin' embarrassing."
"That pretty much sums it up, eh, we can go now..."
Reporter: "What do you have planned for practice?"
McLellan: "Well, unfortunately we have another, uh, a, Players' Association day. They took it today, I guess they'll get back-to-back days, but we'll work on Monday. Goodnight."
Tags: calgary+flames, edmonton+oilers, todd+mclellan
Flames, Hurricanes looking to sell
From the Ottawa Sun's Bruce Garrioch:
Which GMs have put up the 'For Sale' sign as the final hour approaches? We're told lots have, but here's the most active wheelers and dealers followed by the gossip that's fit to print.
Calgary Flames GM Brad Treliving: He wants badly to be active and is willing to accept he hasn't got a playoff team this spring. Teams are calling about veteran forward Jiri Hudler, who is an unrestricted free agent, along with defenceman Kris Russell. There was talk the Flames were going to re-sign Russell but the word is the two sides aren't close to a deal but he could fetch north of $5 million on the open market and Calgary may not pay that out. Some wonder if Treliving will be able to get a goalie at this deadline.
Carolina Hurricanes GM Ron Francis: This is a bit of surprise given the fact his team is making a run for a playoff spot but apparently he can't be deterred by that. The 'Canes are looking to move centre Eric Staal, who told reporters in Ottawa last week he "wouldn't be crushed" if he got dealt. The list doesn't stop there. Teams looking for help might want to call about defenceman Ron Hainsey along with forwards Kris Versteeg and Nathan Gerbe. Forward Jeff Skinner's name has been out there all year but his contract makes him difficult to move.
Continued with many more rumors...
Tags: brad+treliving, calgary+flames, carolina+hurricanes, eric+staal, jeff+skinner, jiri+hudler, kris+russell, kris+versteeg, nathan+gerbe, ron+francis, ron+hainsey
On the Wideman appeal
From the New York Post's Larry Brooks:
What did the Flames know and when did they know it?
That will become the critical issue in the aftermath of the Dennis Wideman incident that could become the NHL's Concussiongate once all appeals are exhausted and the final verdict is handed down on the Calgary defenseman, currently serving a 20-game suspension under Rule 40.2 for having violently crosschecked (my words) linesman Don Henderson on Jan. 27.
The rule that stipulates "intent to injure" was applied even though the league acknowledged Wideman had suffered a brain injury as the result of taking a hard check into the glass/dasher seconds before running into — or running — Henderson.
The later diagnosed concussion will figure prominently in the NHLPA's appeal to league commissioner Gary Bettman. While it is unfathomable that the commissioner will reduce the sentence and incur the wrath of the officials working the ice — Yellow Sunday, anyone? — an all but inevitable ensuing appeal to an independent arbitrator could well yield a different result.
Because the sub-question to the one posed above is, can a player in the immediate aftermath of suffering a brain injury form the intent to do anything, much less injure an official? Believe me, that's posed as a question; I am not playing the role of a physician in this space.
Tags: calgary+flames, dennis+wideman, gary+bettman
It's linesman-hitting night in the NHL!
This play is definitely going to be reviewed by the NHL, but I'm not sure what decision they're going to make. Calgary Flames defenseman Dennis Wideman got hit very hard by Nashville Predators forward Miikka Salomaki, and as Wideman gets up and goes to the bench, linesman Don Henderson...do we go with "gets in the way" or "got clipped by Wideman?" Both things appear to have happened:
At 1 AM, TSN posted this:
Afterwards Wideman said the incident was "completely unintentional and I already apologized to him".
"Throughout my career I think I've treated every official with the utmost respect and I'd never try to intentionally hit a linesman or ref," explained Wideman. "I was kind of keeled over and at the last second I saw him and couldn't avoid it. I couldn't see him and didn't know where to go or how to get away from him. It was an accident and I feel really bad about it."
Update: For comparison's sake, see: Milan Loosick...I mean Milan Lucic...slugging Jay Sharrers in the face while trying to get at Cody McLeod:
That'll get reviewed, too.
added 7:17am, Wideman's explanation, watch below...
Tags: calgary+flames, cody+mcleod, colorado+avalanche, dennis+wideman, los+angeles+kings, milan+lucic, nashville+predators
Saturday Headlines: On the John Scott trade, Ducks trade talk and more
Among Sportsnet's Damien Cox and Elliotte Friedman's Saturday Headlines:
The John Scott trade to Montreal was legitimate in that Coyotes GM Don Maloney wanted Jared Tinordi badly and were afraid that the deal with the Canadiens would fall apart, so they didn't wait 3 weeks to make the deal, and Scott was the "only player who could go" back to Montreal in the trade;
Cox states that the Canadiens got $200,000 in cap relief and a player in Nashville's Victor Bartley, who the Canadiens believe may actually contribute to their blueline;
The NHL offered Scott the opportunity to go to the All-Star Game as a paid family vacation, but he's not responded, and Scott isn't sure whether he's going to bow out;
Cox states that Pittsburgh and Anaheim made the Hagelin-for-Perron-and-Clendening deal at 3:15 AM Saturday morning, and Cox says that the Penguins are taking on 3 more years at $4 million for Hagelin, and Penguins GM Jim Rutherford still believes that his team will contend, while the Ducks' trade...makes people wonder if the Ducks are setting themselves up to trade for Jonathan Drouin;
Friedman says that the Ducks' Simon Despres and Cam Fowler may generate trade interest, as will the balance of their blueline;
Flames defenseman Kris Russell is generating interest, too, but the Flames still want to attempt to re-sign Russell;
Eric Staal is "still in limbo," and his agent, Rick Curran, will try to clarify his client's situation;
And Friedman says that the Kings still want to sign Milan Lucic to an extension if at all possible.
Tags: all-star+game, anaheim+ducks, calgary+flames, cam+fowler, carl+hagelin, carolina+hurricanes, david+perron, eric+staal, jim+rutherford, john+scott, kris+russell, los+angeles+kings, milan+lucis, montreal+canadiens, nashville+predators, phoenix+coyotes, pittsburgh+penguins, simon+despres
3-on-3 OT is popular with everyone…except goalies…
Among the National Post's Michael Traikos' observations from the first week of the 2015-16 season:
The 3-on-3 is a "gong show" for goalies
There have been five games that went to overtime so far this season. Of those, only two have gone the distance and required a shootout to solve.
For the NHL, which predicted that 72% of games would end in the 3-on-3, it is an encouraging sign. Unless, of course, you happen to be a goaltender.
Tampa Bay goaltender Ben Bishop called the 3-on-3 OT format a "gong show" and Calgary goaltender Jonas Hiller said "It's kind of like an All-Star Game." But you cannot argue with the entertainment value. Breakaways, odd-man rushes and scoring chances on nearly every puck possession has translated into the most exciting five minutes of the game.
"Definitely nerve-wracking," Calgary's Johnny Gaudreau, who scored in a 3-on-3 overtime win against Vancouver. "With so much time and space and ice, one costly turnover or mistake and that's the game. You've got to be smart out there. You have to be strategic about it, but it's fun."
Tags: ben+bishop, calgary+flames, johnny+gaudreau, jonas+hiller, tampa+bay+lightning
EA Sports predicts an Anaheim Ducks Cup win
The Stanley Cup is headed to Anaheim this season, according to a video game simulation of the NHL season.
EA Sports says its "NHL 16" simulation has the Ducks winning the Presidents' Trophy, symbolic of the best regular-season record, and then defeating the Montreal Canadiens in the Cup final. Anaheim forward Corey Perry claims the Conn Smythe Trophy as playoff MVP.
The Ducks defeat the Minnesota Wild in the Western Conference final while the Habs dispatch the Pittsburgh Penguins in the East final.
EA, which develops the hockey video game in suburban Vancouver, had the Los Angeles Kings winning the Cup last season in its pre-season simulation and the St. Louis Blues the year before that.
The new simulation has the Buffalo Sabres, who finished last in the 2014-15 standings, missing out on the playoffs by just two points. The Los Angeles Kings make it back to the post-season only to lose in seven games to the Calgary Flames in the first round.
Update: Here's EA's video of their simulation:
Tags: anaheim+ducks, buffalo+sabres, calgary+flames, corey+perry, los+angeles+kings, minnesota+wild, montreal+canadiens, pittsburgh+penguins
Jimmy Fallon pokes fun at NHL mugshots, playoffs version
In the comedy department (we have that here), Jimmy Fallon poked fun at the "mugshots" of players taking part in the second round of tne NHL playoffs last night, and the results were quite amusing:
Tags: anaheim+ducks, calgary+flames, chicago+blackhawks, minnesota+wild, new+york+rangers, tampa+bay+lightning, washington+capitals
Sometimes it's all about the…parallax?
Sportnset's John Shannon explains why the Calgary Flames weren't credited with a goal on Sam Bennett's would-be goal attempt on Tuesday evening. It's about something called parallax.
From Merriam-Webster:
Definition of PARALLAX: the apparent displacement or the difference in apparent direction of an object as seen from two different points not on a straight line with the object; especially : the angular difference in direction of a celestial body as measured from two points on the earth's orbit
Tags: calgary+flames, sam+bennett
Hartley, Laviolette, Vigneault named Jack Adams finalists
Bob Hartley of the Calgary Flames, Peter Laviolette of the Nashville Predators and Alain Vigneault of the New York Rangers are the three finalists for the 2014-15 Jack Adams Award, presented to the head coach who has "contributed the most to his team's success," the National Hockey League announced today.
Members of the NHL Broadcasters' Association submitted ballots for the Jack Adams Award at the conclusion of the regular season, with the top three vote-getters designated as finalists. The winner will be announced Wednesday, June 24, during the 2015 NHL Awards from the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas.
Following are the finalists for the Jack Adams Award, in alphabetical order:
Tags: alain+vigneault, bob+hartley, calgary+flames, nashville+predators, new+york+rangers, peter+laviolette
Fredrik Andersen with the save(?) of the night
If you believe the replay, the Anaheim Ducks and Calgary Flames are in overtime presently due to this fantastic save by Fredrik Andersen...
You can make the argument for deceptive angle, but this looks like a goal. pic.twitter.com/P6DwGjzC9A
— Pete Blackburn (@PeteBlackburn) May 6, 2015
Khabibulin 2004 on left, Andersen 2015 on right. Neither called a goal. pic.twitter.com/nCRqGpjmaa
— Ryan Porth (@PorthGame) May 6, 2015
If you're Calgary Flames fan, this "Situation Room" blog entry from NHL.com serves as cold comfort:
At 13:43 of the third period in the Anaheim Ducks/Calgary Flames game, the Situation Room initiated a video review to further examine Sam Bennett's shot at 13:38. Video review was inconclusive in determining whether the puck completely crossed the Anaheim goal line, therefore the referee's call on the ice stands - no goal Calgary.
Tags: anaheim+ducks, calgary+flames
Flames advance to play the Ducks
The Calgary Flames rallied from a 3-0 deficit to pull of a staggering 7-4 win over the Vancouver Canucks on Saturday night, advancing to the second round, where they'll play the Anaheim Ducks.
Jiri Hudler scored the game-winner for Calgary, scoring 6:14 in:
Tags: anaheim+ducks, calgary+flames, jiri+hudler, vancouver+canucks
A Calgarian rodeo breaks out in Vancouver
So the Calgary Flames and Vancouver Canucks decided to get to know each other a little better toward the end of Vancouver's 4-1 win over Calgary:
From the box score:
Just handed final game sheet. Still shows Engelland with 2 majors, instigator and 3 game misc. Told Shick looked it over. Subject to change.
— Darren Dreger (@DarrenDreger) April 18, 2015
Dorsett also given 2 majors and a game misconduct.
Engelland's three game misconducts, I am told, are in different categories, so they don't cumulatively result in automatic suspension(s)...
— Bob McKenzie (@TSNBobMcKenzie) April 18, 2015
Tags: brad+richardson, brandon+bollig, calgary+flames, derek+dorsett, matt+stajan, michael+ferland, shawn+matthias, vancouver+canucks
Pre-trade deadline 'headlines' from Cox and Friedman
added 9:31pm, Watch the segment below...
Two days prior to the trade deadline, Sportsnet's Damien Cox and Elliotte Friedman dished trade-related "headlines" during the 2nd intermission of Hockey Night in Canada's Saturday broadcast.
Cox stated that the Maple Leafs may be the most active team at the deadline. They're listening to offers for Jonathan Bernier, emphasis on "listening," but there are teams like San Jose, Dallas perhaps (given that Kari Lehtonen continues to struggle); Olli Jokinen, Korbinian Holzer and David Booth are also possible moves.
Cox wondered whether the Maple Leafs would trade Joffrey Lupul to the Habs, and there is only "very lukewarm interest" there, and the Clarkson deal was going to be more complicated, but the Blue Jackets and Leafs were unable to consummate a larger deal, so they swapped Horton for Clarkson.
According to Friedman, Patrick Sharp was not asked for a list of 10 teams to which he would accept a trade within 48 hours of the trade deadline, and because that list wasn't asked for before 3 PM on Saturday, he's going nowhere; he also reports that Mats Zuccarello and the Rangers are at contract loggerheads, and the Rangers offered 6 years at $4.5 million on average, so he's being shopped, but the Rangers are not allowing would-be suitors to discuss a contract with Zuccarello before making trade offers;
Jeff Petry's not playing tonight for Edmonton and Montreal, Anaheim and St. Louis have been rumored; Friedman wonders if the Blues have considered moving Vladimir Sobotka to help the team despite Sobotka's status as a KHL'er;
Tags: antoine+vermette, buffalo+sabres, calgary+flames, chicago+blackhawks, chris+stewart, columbus+blue+jackets, curtis+glencross, david+booth, david+clarkson, edmonton+oilers, jeff+petry, joffrey+lupul, jonathan+bernier, keith+yandle, korbinian+holzer, mark+pysyk, mats+zuccarello, nathan+horton, new+york+rangers, olli+jokinen, patrick+sharp, phoenix+coyotes, st.+louis+blues, ted+nolan, tim+murray, toronto+maple+leafs, vladimir+sobotka
Flames lose Giordano to…shoulder injury?
From Sportsnet's Jeff Simmons:
Calgary Flames defenceman Mark Giordano suffered an undisclosed injury in the final seconds of Wednesday's game when he was knocked down to the ice awkwardly by New Jersey Devils forward Steve Bernier.
Giordano headed right to the dressing room after T.J. Brodie helped seal a 3-1 victory for Calgary with a shorthanded empty-net goal.
It looks...weird...
From NHL.com's Mike G. Morreale's recap:
The Flames received a scare at the end of the game when captain Mark Giordano, who scored his 48th point on an assist, appeared to sustain an injury in the final seconds after getting tangled in the stick of Devils forward Steve Bernier.
Flames coach Bob Hartley said Giordano would be re-evaluated on Thursday. The defenseman was walking and moving in the locker room at the end of the game.
Tags: bob+hartley, calgary+flames, mark+giordano, new+jersey+devils
Canucks' Jannik Hansen OK despite collapsing on bench
NHL.com's Kevin Woodley needs to explain this before you see it:
Vancouver Canucks forward Jannik Hansen left the game after collapsing briefly on the bench shortly after taking a hit early in the second period against the Calgary Flames on Saturday.
Hansen was conscious and on his feet moments later but had to be helped to the locker room by medical staff.
CBC reported that Hansen was being observed in the Canucks dressing room and was not taken to a hospital. It later said he was walking to the Canucks' workout room.
Hansen took a hit from Calgary defenseman Dennis Wideman in the corner and was hunched over as he skated straight off. He remained hunched over as he sat on the bench while play continued, then slumped forward, his body appearing to go limp as teammates caught him and banged their sticks on the boards to get the attention of referees, who stopped play while medical staff rushed out from behind the Canucks net.
Hockey Night in Canada's Scott Oake was the one who reported that Hansen was walking on his own, but, via Yahoo Sports' Josh Cooper, that's pretty damn amazing:
I can only make a speculative and educated guess here: if Hansen was concussed or otherwise "had his bell rung" by the Wideman hit, it could've taken some time for his body to process that reaction and wooziness to hit.
Henrik Sedin on Jannik Hansen: "He came to the bench and couldn't catch his breath. It was scary but he seems to be doing better." #Canucks
— Cam Tucker (@CamTucker_Metro) December 21, 2014
Coach Willie Desjardins said Jannik Hansen went to the hospital to get checked out. #Canucks
Tags: calgary+flames, dennis+wideman, jannik+hansen, vancouver+canucks
Intriguing observations from the 'Hockey World' and 'Three Periods'
The Edmonton Journal's Jim Matheson's main Hockey World column is a good read, discussing the post-firing life of coaches who rebounded in their own ways in Tom Renney and Rick Bowness, but his "Short Shifts" are probably more pertinent:
- St. Louis Blues phenom Vladimir Tarasenko, who just turned 23, has 20 goals on the year, but he might have scored 30 if he had shot more. He's got 113 shots but that only puts him seventh behind Ovechkin, Karlsson, Seguin, Giroux, Pavelski and Pacioretty. "He could be more selfish," said an NHL pro scout, marvelling at the Russian youngster's release. Tarasenko, who may get to the $5-million to $6-million per season range in a new contract this summer, has 16 even-strength goals, second only to Tyler Seguin's 17. "Twenty goals before Christmas? That's special," said teammate Steve Ott.
- If Vincent Lecavalier is playing right wing with Zac Rinaldo and French rookie Pierre-Edouard Bellemare in Philly, this is the end of the line for him, no?
- It should be noted that Roberto Luongo has a much better (2.35) goals-against average and way higher (.925) save percentage than Ryan Miller (.267) and .900 in Vancouver right now, but Miller has 16 wins. His team gives him way more run support than Luongo's (11 wins) in Florida. Miller's numbers are five-alarm stuff, but he is in the first year of a three-year, $18-million deal and he's 34, not, say, 28.
This is probably true of more general managers (and coaches) than not, too:
-New Jersey Devils general manager Lou Lamoriello is almost always around his team, home and away, but he knows exactly what's going on with his farm team and their prospects. "He gets tapes of the games and the practices," said former Devils defenceman Mark Fayne.
Matheson continues, and while we're doing short quips and quotes, Yahoo Sports' Nicholas J. Cotsonika penned a superb "Three Periods" column discussing the Blue Jackets' resurgence and Patrik Elias' pluck, but the "Third Period" sticks:
Tags: bill+daly, bob+hartley, buffalo+sabres, calgary+flames, dallas+eakins, edmonton+oilers, florida+panthers, las+vegas, lou+lamoriello, new+jersey+devils, philadelphia+flyers, roberto+luongo, ryan+miller, st.+louis+blues, toronto+maple+leafs, vincent+lecavalier, vladimir+tarasenko
TSN, Sportsnet: Flames to sign T.J. Brodie to 5-year extension today
Per TSN...
The Calgary Flames are expected to complete a contract extension with defenceman TJ Brodie on Monday. The deal is believed to be for five years, in the range of $23 million, according to TSN Hockey Insider Bob McKenzie.
The 24-year-old has three goals and four assists in seven games this season for the Flames, as well as a plus-5 rating.
The Flames selected the Chatham, Ontario native with the 114th pick in the fourth round of the 2008 NHL Entry Draft.
Brodie made his NHL debut during the 2010-11 campaign and posted a career best four goals and 27 assists in 81 games last season.
And Sportsnet:
Tags: calgary+flames, t.j.+brodie
Flames sign Raphael Diaz
From TSN:
Raphael Diaz has hung on with the Calgary Flames.
The Swiss defender has signed a one-year deal with the Flames worth a reported $700,000 after successfully making the 23-man roster on a professional tryout.
Diaz, 28, scored two goals and added 13 assists in 63 combined games with the Montreal Canadiens, Vancouver Canucks and New York Rangers in 2013-14.
In 145 career games he has scored six goals and 39 assists.
Tags: calgary+flames, raphael+diaz
Flames on a plane, with the Cup
On Saturday, the Hockey News's Adam Proteau posted the first installment of a two-part "oral history" of the Calgary Flames' 1989 Stanley Cup run, and he continues today with more behind-the-scenes tales from the Flames' Cup win in the Montreal Forum and its aftermath:
Delirious with joy, the Flames boarded their plane for the flight back to Calgary. They would all go on to enjoy incredible NHL careers, but for those precious few hours, they celebrated as one extended family.
CLIFF FLETCHER My son and daughter were on the plane with me. We had a special passenger, too: It wasn't supposed to be allowed, but it just so happened the Stanley Cup was in that cabin with us.
AL MACINNIS We knew that was our one time as a team – from managers, to coaches, to trainers, to players – to really just be together for those few hours and take in the moment. That was a pretty special time, and quite a plane ride.
COLIN PATTERSON One of my favorite pictures from the flight is myself, Joel Otto and Lanny: We were sitting in one row and we'd just got the Cup. We were just so excited to have it.
THEO FLEURY I think I passed out on the plane hugging the Cup.
DOUG GILMOUR The only disappointing part of it was we ran out of beer before we took off. Whatever was available after that point – liquor, wine, whatever – was what we drank. We didn't really care at that point.
TERRY CRISP We sat with our wives in the front of the plane; the players were in the back with the Cup. It was great because you could just sit and listen to the guys back there. And it really was just the team. Nobody could interfere with you. Until you land, it's yours. When you're up in the clouds – as you deserved to be, because you just knocked off one of the best in the business, in the Mecca of hockey – you get to enjoy it.
Tags: al+macinnis, calgary+flames, chuck+fletcher, doug+gilmour, montreal+canadiens, theo+fleury
Calgary Flames 1989 Cup run nearly derailed in 1st round
The Hockey News's Adam Proteau has penned the first of a two-part "oral history" chronicling the Calgary Flames' 1989 Stanley Cup win, and it never ceases to amaze me how very heavily Cup-winners are challenged in the playoff round that Scotty Bowman insisted is the most dangerous round:
For the second year in a row, the Flames had finished the regular season with the NHL's top record. In 1988, they'd won their first-round series against the Kings, only to be swept by the Edmonton Oilers in the Smythe Division final. Two years earlier, they'd made it to the first Stanley Cup Final in franchise history, falling to the Montreal Canadiens in five games.
But in 1989 – their second year with Terry Crisp as head coach – the Flames proved a more resilient squad. And they had to be right away; In their opening-round series against Vancouver (a team that finished with 43 fewer points in the standings that season), Calgary lost key defenseman Gary Suter in the first game with a broken jaw, then found themselves pushed to the brink of elimination as the Canucks forced a heart-stopping seventh game – and overtime – and yet managed to move on thanks to astounding goaltending from Mike Vernon and the series-winning goal that banked in off Joel Otto's skate.
TERRY CRISP, HEAD COACH We really dodged a bullet in that first round. You're that close to being gone and maybe never getting another crack at it. When I look back, I think there must have been a divine destiny somewhere in the first round, because Vancouver took us right to the wall.
CLIFF FLETCHER, GENERAL MANAGER The pressure of the first round nearly did us in. We weren't the hockey team we had been over the course of the regular season. We were very fortunate to win that series. Mike Vernon had to make three outstanding saves before we managed to shovel a goal late in the first overtime.
AL MACINNIS, DEFENSEMAN If Mike doesn't make those saves, we don't move on. But when we got by Vancouver, that's when I think that pressure was relieved from us, and we felt just felt that, 'Man, we're really on our way.' After that, we lost three games total in the next three series.
TERRY CRISP After that, the guys just put it into gear and away we went.
Proteau continues...
Tags: al+macinnis, calgary+flames, chuck+fletcher, mike+vernon
Calgary Flames goaltender Jonas Hiller only needs 'minor procedure' to deal with appendicitis
Via NHL.com, reading this kind of thing is usually quite scary, but the Calgary Sun's Wes Gilbertson reports that the Calagary Flames' new starting goaltender has
#Flames G Jonas Hiller needed only minor procedure after appendictis attack. Expected to make a speedy recovery.
— Wes Gilbertson (@SUNGilbertson) July 17, 2014
From NHL.com:
Calgary Flames goaltender Jonas Hiller needed a minor procedure after having an appendicitis attack working out in Switzerland, the Calgary Sun reported via Twitter.
Flames beat writer Wes Gilbertson wrote Hiller is "expected to make a speedy recovery."
Initial reports from Switzerland said Hiller had the attack at a goalie camp in Verbier. The camp director did not know if Hiller would need surgery.
The wonders of modern medicine, eh?
Tags: calgary+flames, jonas+hiller
Middle-of-the-night line
Estimable player agent Gunnar Svenson found a Tweet that summarizes the draft like no other, and perhaps a moment that represents the most press Aaron Ekblad will see for a long time.
Oilers TV's Tom Gazzola caught the Florida Panthers' #1 overall pick meeting the press after exiting stage right:
Popular guy pic.twitter.com/futXUinWTv
— Tom Gazzola (@TomGazzola) June 27, 2014
Gary Bettman isn't kidding when he shakes the hand of every kid who shows up to the draft and takes the stage in the first round and says, "Welcome to the NHL."
In the 2nd through 7th rounds, picks are made at teams' draft tables, but the Globe and Mail's James Mirtle noted that Calgary Flames prospects will see something that might stick out a weeeeee little bit, as posted by the Score's Thomas Drance:
Brian Burke's hair now legitimately looks like Magneto's helmet pic.twitter.com/S2s7FAG0Rp
— Thomas Drance (@ThomasDrance) June 27, 2014
Welcome to the Flames, where truculence is mandatory and flow is optional.
Tags: aaron+ekblad, brian+burke, calgary+flames, florida+panthers
Flames GM Treliving denies Spezza rumors, differentiates between 'talks' and 'trade offers'
The Calgary Sun's Eric Francis had a conversation with new Flames GM Brad Trevliving on Monday afternoon, and Treveling made two particularly telling remarks, first addressing the suggestions that his team is bidding for Jason Spezza's services...
"It's categorically false," said the Calgary Flames new GM, making his first public response to a report out of Ottawa saying the Flames offered up Jiri Hudler, Mikael Backlund, "possibly" Dennis Wideman and a second- or third-round draft pick.
"I haven't made any such offers. That's 100% fantasy island. I saw it early Sunday online and had to read it a couple times and had to remind myself 'oh ya I'm the Flames GM. Interesting.' "
And then speaking bluntly and honestly about the fact that, yes, general managers actually talk to each other about potential trades on a regular basis:
Tags: brad+treliving, calgary+flames, jason+spezza, ryan+kesler, vancouver+canucks
Matheson handicaps awards races, says Oilers should retire #94, Jets should trade Kane
The Edmonton Journal's Jim Matheson kicked off his last regular-season slate of Hockey World columns with individual awards picks, and his pick for the Vezina Trophy is a surprising one:
Vezina Trophy (top goalie)
1. Semyon Varlamov, Colorado.
2. Tuukka Rask, Boston
3. Ben Bishop, Tampa Bay
Had off-ice issues this year which weighed on him but very consistent work. Rask is best Finnish goalie right now, and they've got a full stable of good ones around the NHL. Bishop, nursing sore wrist as playoffs loom, is a six-foot-seven giant and a workhorse.
Matheson continues, making a plea to the Oilers to retire Ryan Smyth's number...
Tags: antti+niemi, calgary+flames, detroit+red+wings, edmonton+oilers, evander+kane, george+mcphee, henrik+zetterberg, jonathan+ericsson, ken+holland, ryan+smyth, san+jose+sharks, semyon+varlamov, vezina+trophy, washington+capitals, winnipeg+jets
Daniel Sedin injured in Canucks-Flames game, taken to hospital
Updated 3x at 1:47 AM: Sedin has been released from the hospital, and there's a longer video of the incident in the extended text portion of this entry.
Very scary stuff in Vancouver. From @myregularface on Twitter, Daniel Sedin got banged-up in a bad way in the Canucks' regular-season finale against Calgary on Sunday evening (the third period is underway as I file this entry)...
Here is the hit that has severely injured Sedin http://t.co/Xdy6lin7Na
— Steph (@myregularface) April 14, 2014
Another look at hit on Daniel Sedin that resulted in him being taken off on a stretcher http://t.co/JiiPOdV4xI
Here's aftermath--thus far:
Tags: calgary+flames, daniel+sedin, paul+byron, vancouver+canucks
Devils get 'Kiprusoffed' by Rammo, Flames
In theory, the New Jersey Devils are out of the Wild Card race after having dropped a 1-0 decision (which included a controversial no-goal call against the Devils), to the Calgary Flames on Monday night, but Jaromir Jagr was defiant while speaking with the Associated Press:
"In my opinion, I think we're going to get one more chance (to make the playoffs)," New Jersey's Jaromir Jagr said. "It's too strange to finish like that. You've got to believe. It wouldn't make any sense to finish like that. We dominated. Just keep the faith and I think we're going to get one more chance in my opinion. We'll see if I'm right or wrong."
When I first saw Kari Ramo wearing the same white Bauer pads that Miikka Kiprusoff wore, with nearly the same specs--all white with tan nash leather on the boots, simply-strapped, and sporting a Kiprusoff-style "pancake" catch glove, I was stunned by his resemblance to Kiprusoff in both form and function.
According to NHL.com's Mike G. Morreale, the Flames witnessed a Kiprusoff-like performance from Ramo, who pitched a 31-save shutout against an incredibly desperate team:
Tags: calgary+flames, columbus+blue+jackets, jaromir+jagr, new+jersey+devils, pete+deboer
Matheson ponders an 'Ovechkin divorce,' reveals Teemu Selanne's toughest opponents
The Edmonton Journal's Jim Matheson penned a particularly prolific set of Hockey World columns and blog entries (so much so that I'm stealing one for my Malik Report blog), and we're going to start sifting through four separate columns/entries' worth of observations and nuggets of wisdom with a question that many have pondered but few have tried to analyze:
Is there any logical way in which the Washington Capitals and Alexander Ovechkin can engage in a civilized "divorce" (and/or removal of that heavy captain's "C"), or is the team, "Married to Alex Ovechkin for life?"--to the detriment of an increasingly rotating cast of coaches, goaltenders and complementary players?
Since the Gretzky trade/sell to the LA Kings in 1988, we all know anybody can get dealt, although that's Leonsis's call, and the question is how many people would give up their tickets to games if Ovie wasn't there. There's 100s of people in Caps' No. 8 jerseys at games in Washington. But, winning often trumps player loyalty and in the time Ovechkin has been with the Caps, they have won three playoff rounds in, this, his 10th year.
Tags: alex+ovechkin, anaheim+ducks, calgary+flames, chris+pronger, derek+roy, dustin+byfuglien, evander+kane, mike+green, ryan+miller, st.+louis+blues, teemu+selanne, vladimir+konstantinov, washington+capitals, winnipeg+jets
Matt Stajan points to the heavens for all the right reasons
The "pointing to the heavens" thing after registering some sort of point in sports may be overdone, but Tomas Tatar (who lost his dad) and now Matt Stajan have gone about the procedure for the right reasons, as the Hockey News's Casey Ippolito ntoes:
It's been a difficult time for Calgary Flames center Matt Stajan.
Following the death of his newborn son, Stajan took a personal leave to grieve with his wife, Katie. The Flames gave him the option to take the rest of the season off. After all, the Flames are basement dwellers, and Stajan's future in Calgary was secured with a recent contract extension. But Stajan, loyal to the game he loves as he is to his family, rejoined the flames after a couple weeks. After an eight-game absence, he returned to the Flames lineup.
Saturday night against the Edmonton Oilers, Stajan found himself with a penalty shot. He walked in and made a slick move on Viktor Fasth, scoring on the backhand. In the moments that followed, Stajan's teammates congratulated him, acknowledging a moment that was much bigger than the game.
Tags: calgary+flames, matt+stajan
It appears that Mike Cammalleri will exit Calgary
Via Chris Nichols, the Calgary Sun's Eric Francis reports that the Calgary Flames are going to trade Mike Cammalleri as the 31-year-old mini-mite is intent upon testing the unrestricted free agent marketplace:
Flames acting GM Brian Burke revealed last week the Flames offered Cammalleri a contract extension, one which is almost certainly several million dollars less a year than he will get on the open market.
So he will leave Calgary via trade. He has submitted a list of seven teams he would not go to — as per his contractual rights — and will now wait to hear his fate.
Only question now is how much he will go for. If Burke can wrangle up a first-round draft pick for a rental the exercise will have been considered an unmitigated success.
A second-rounder would also suffice, assuming it would come with a young prospect of some sort.
A third-rounder in return would be considered a fail unless the deal also includes a decent prospect.
That's the meat of the article, but Francis also ponders where Cammalleri might go and whether someone who last scored 30+ goals 5 years ago can still cash in.
Tags: calgary+flames, mike+cammalleri
Garrioch talks buyers, sellers, etc.
The Ottawa Sun's Bruce Garrioch offers a smorgasbord of rumor news in his last pre-trade-deadline Sunday missive, but the best way to summarize his statements involves encapsulating the following and letting you read on from there:
TOP 5 SELLERS
BUFFALO SABRES - GM Tim Murray made a huge move Friday by dealing goaltender Ryan Miller and captain Steve Ott to the St. Louis Blues. He isn't finished yet, he still has Matt Moulson and anyone else up for grabs.
EDMONTON OILERS - Craig MacTavish has been trying to make moves all year and he's made a couple of deals. He'd like to move forward Ales Hemsky and will retain salary. A lot of teams will try to make a bigger deal for winger Jordan Eberle.
N.Y. ISLANDERS - Losing captain John Tavares to injury gives GM Garth Snow the green light to move left wing Thomas Vanek and defenceman Andy MacDonald. Vanek might be the most sought-after player and MacDonald won't be far behind.
NASHVILLE PREDATORS - This might be a bit of a surprise but they are a longshot to make the playoffs. A lot of teams have called about centre David Legwand. He may not be the only one to go. Wouldn't be surprised to see many gone.
CALGARY FLAMES - Interim GM Brian Burke hasn't made any bold moves since he took over but you can expect him to be busy. The club would like to keep UFA Mike Cammalleri but it's doubtful he'll stay. There are options for buyers.
Garrioch goes from there, listing his top 5 buyers, discussing Markov to Edmonton(?), the Stars' situation, news from Long Island, New York City, San Jose, Calgary, etc...
And this is just me, but if Garth Snow wants a top prospect, a 1st rounder and a 2nd rounder for Thomas Vanek, I may have considered that before Vanek confirmed that he wanted to test the maret...But now that he embarrassed himself and the Austrian Olympic team by going out and getting blotto with some teammates prior to battling Slovenia, I wouldn't touch him with a ten-foot pole.
Tags: ales+hemsky, andrew+macdonald, buffalo+sabres, calgary+flames, craig+mactavish, david+legwand, edmonton+oilers, garth+snow, matt+moulson, mike+cammalleri, nashville+predators, new+york+islanders, thomas+vanek
Garrioch: Cammalleri's name at top of long list of trade deadline candidates
George here on the late shift, and as the trade deadline is now under two months away (albeit interspersed with a during-the-Olympics roster freeze), the Ottawa Sun's Bruce Garrioch's weekly trade rumor roundup is chock full of info, including a lead-off that this Wings fan wouldn't mind seeing happen:
Mike Cammalleri might want to hold off on purchasing any real estate in Calgary. He is most likely on the move.
With the NHL trade deadline set for March 5, many league executives view the 31-year-old Cammalleri as one of the most attractive options available for teams that want a forward who can make an impact.
Making $6 million in the final year of his contract, he's coveted by several teams and we're told Flames president of hockey operations Brian Burke has been getting phone calls from contenders who are willing to ante up to get Cammalleri.
Sources say the Los Angeles Kings, Vancouver Canucks and Detroit Red Wings all have an interest in Cammalleri. It's believed Kings coach Darryl Sutter and Detroit's Mike Babcock would both welcome him.
Cammalleri has been in L.A. before so it would be a nice fit but there's a chance the Montreal Canadiens may try to bring him back.
Garrioch continues at length, discussing the Jets (fewer moves likely), whether Nazem Kadri's really "in play" or whether the Leafs' management is trying to motivate him by name-dropping instead, whether Ryan Miller will be moved, and Garrioch also confirms that the Hurricanes are willing to hold a fire sale again...
But you'll have to forgive my wishful thinking because the Wings passed on Cammalleri, who was starring at the University of Michigan back in 2001, to pick Igor Grigorenko instead.
McKenzie weighs in on Saturday night's controversies
After a player-brawl and coach-attempting-to-visit-opponents-scrap-filled 3-2 Vancouver Canucks shootout win over the Calgary Flames, coach John Tortorella played it by the book during his brief post-game presser:
He more or less built an impenetrable, "I'm not answering that" and/or, "I won't talk about fights with anyone who didn't play the game" facade (the latter, he did not say literally), with the initial summary of his comments reading as follows (and yes, he blamed Bob Hartley for starting 4th line versus...eventual 4th line):
Torts: "I can't put our players at risk that way (ie Sedins). I'm not proud of it. I've apologized to everyone for it" #canucks
— Farhan Lalji (@FarhanLaljiTSN) January 19, 2014
"I can't put our players at risk that way. I'm not proud of it. I've apologized to all of the players involved." - Torts
— Vancouver Canucks (@VanCanucks) January 19, 2014
Tags: calgary+flames, darryl+sutter, detroit+red+wings, john+tortorella, los+angeles+kings, niklas+kronwall, vancouver+canucks
John Tortorella tries to visit the Flames' locker room after Nucks-Flames brawl
As Paul noted, the Vancouver Canucks and Calgary Flames got into quite the brawl to start their game off, and as the Flames left the ice, this happened:
There's Torts talking shit to the entire Flames team..... pic.twitter.com/sxgqso5H2N
— Doc Oct® (@HockeySavants) January 19, 2014
Update from Vancouver pic.twitter.com/qjGyx6gPIu
— Chris Cuthbert (@CCtsn) January 19, 2014
This CGY-VAN, uh, whatever it is, just went to whole other level with John Tortorella trying to get at CGY players/staff/room off the ice.
— Bob McKenzie (@TSNBobMcKenzie) January 19, 2014
That's John Tortorella visiting the Flames as they attempt to enter their locker room. I believe Mr. Tortorella will be suspended shorty, I mean shortly.
Tortorella ran down his own team hallway, into the main hallway, and up in the Flames hallway. Wtf. Amazing and absurd. #canucksa
— David Ebner (@DavidEbner) January 19, 2014
TSN has posted a video of the shenanigans, and the Sporting News's Sean Gentile has graced us with a .gif:
Tags: calgary+flames, john+tortorella, vancouver+canucks
Calgary Flames Sign Keegan Kanzig
by Monica McAlister on 12/19/13 at 07:08 PM ET
Per Flames Press Release
Calgary, AB – The Calgary Flames announced today that they have signed defenceman Keegan Kanzig to a three year entry level contract.
A native of Athabasca, Alberta, Kanzig is currently in his third season with the Victoria Royals of the Western Hockey League. In 30 games this season, the 6'6", 240 lbs defenceman has 2 goals and 2 assists while accumulating 57 penalty minutes. In his first training camp with the Flames this past September, the defensive minded rearguard appeared in 1 pre-season game against the Edmonton Oilers recording an assist and a plus 2 rating in 15 minutes of ice-time. Kanzig was Calgary's 3rd round selection (67th overall) in the 2013 NHL Draft.
Tags: calgary+flames
Simmons: Brian Burke's off-the-cuff, hair-tousled presser was anything but impromptu
The Brian Burke press conference was talked and over-talked to death, especially given the fact that he looked so damn disheveled, but the Toronto Sun's Steve Simmons believes that Burke's messages were delivered with cold and calculated precision:
Burke is nothing if not prepared. He often works out his press conferences lines prior to having his press conferences. He writes down catch-phrases and memorizes them. Like an actor, he chooses his motivation, sets the mood and then determines what look he will display to the public he so often owns.
The look at the firing of GM Jay Feaster and assistant GM John Weisbrod in Calgary was that of a man who had rolled up his sleeves, a touch wild-eyed, having slept little and who hadn't bothered to groom his lengthy mop. It was all part of a way of demonstrating how much he had put in to the decision to take over the Flames in earnest.
Some of the words in Calgary were familiar: Belligerent, truculent, impatience. Burke loves to talk about his teams, how he wants them to play, what his vision contains.
The challenge now, as it was in Toronto, is hiring the right people and executing his plan. He won his one Stanley Cup with Chris Pronger and Scott Niedermayer on defence first, not as much because of the physical manner in which the Anaheim Ducks played. He will be forced to go forward without two generational defencemen. As he found in Toronto, it makes winning and building all the more daunting.
Continued with oodles of other topics
Tags: briane+burke, calgary+flames
Matheson engages in a fascinating conversation with Rob Blake about the suspension process
The Edmonton Journal's Jim Matheson's posted at least half of his weekly Hockey World articles on his blog page (I believe that he's still working on "Ask Matty" as I'm posting this, and I don't see any "Short Shifts" yet).
Especially given a) the fact that Don Cherry decided to suggest that John Scott and Cody McLeod require the sympathy of fans who don't understand "their role" or their obligation to "make a difference" and b) the endless suggestions that it's up to players and only players to police themselves when Sportsnet's John Shannon so wisely suggested that coaches, GM's and owners also share responsibility for employing players in "punishing" roles (we tend to forget that both players, coaches, GM's and owners are generally concerned about their team's well-being and competitive interests ahead of safe working environments)...
It's refreshing to hear now-NHL Department of Player Safety employee Rob Blake tell Matheson that there's a significant amount of push-back from teams when players are facing Sheriff Shanny's Wheel of Justice:
Tags: buffalo+sabres, calgary+flames, colorado+avalanche, department+of+player+safety, jiri+hudler, john+scott, magnus+paajarvi, matt+duchene, rob+blake, st.+louis+blues
by Monica McAlister on 10/07/13 at 06:28 AM ET
Welcome to the morning after! A recap of the games from the night before and quick hit hockey news.
Philadelphia Flyers at Carolina Hurricanes
Another disappointing outing for the Flyers would start with Jay Harrison notching his first of the season for the Hurricanes as he put a wrist shot past Steve Mason in the first period.
Tags: anaheim+ducks, calgary+flames, carolina+hurricanes, philadelphia+flyers, selanne+says+goodbye+to+winnipeg, vancouver+canucks, winnipeg+jets
Sportsnet chronicles the Calgary Flames' 'Face Off With the Flood"
The Calgary Flames' home, the Scotiabank Saddledome, suffered severe damage when torrential floods wreaked havoc in Southern Alberta this past summer, and Sportsnet posted all 45 minutes' worth of an hour-long special on the Flames as well as the province's attempts to recover from the flood. The series is a two-parter, and it's worth watching:
The Morning After Skate
In Case You Missed
It Tampa Bay Lightning at Boston Bruins Puck dropped in Boston to start the season for the two Atlantic teams' first game of the 2013-14 season. Neither team wasted much time getting on the box score; however, to start it was on the penalty side. A hooking call to Bruins Reilly Smith would lead to a shorthanded goal by teammate Chris Kelly.
Tags: boston+bruins, calgary+flames, ilya+bryzgalov+to+the+echl, los+angeles+kings, minnesota+wild, new+jersey+devils, new+york+rangers, phoenix+coyotes, pittsburgh+penguins, san+jose+sharks, tampa+bay+lightning, tim+thomas+returns, vancouver+canucks, vlasic+skate+to+face, washington+capitals
Maple Leafs trade Colborne to Flames for a pick
The player who was once the "x factor" in the Phil Kessel trade just got shuffled out of Toronto, per the Maple Leafs:
The Toronto Maple Leafs have traded centreman Joe Colborne tonight to the Flames in exchange for Calgary's own fourth-round pick in the 2014 NHL Entry Draft. The pick can be upgraded to a third-round pick in 2014 if certain conditions are met in the upcoming season.
And the Flames...
Tags: calgary+flames, toronto+maple+leafs
Flames Fans Fantastic! Oiler's Fans? Not So Much…
by Scooter Kelly on 09/15/11 at 10:00 AM ET
I was really hoping to wait and save this mind dump for a more opportune time. That time being after the 1st game of the year and the steaming pile of Oil is doing their best to secure the 2012 1st overall selection. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to differentiate a Calgary Flames fan from an Edmonton Oiler fan. Please let me give the causal observer a run down on the differences.
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Tags: calgary+flames, edmonton+oilers, scooter+kelly, ugly+humans
Brent Sutter Has Come a Long Way This Season
by Alanah McGinley on 03/04/11 at 03:37 PM ET
From George Johnson in the Calgary Herald:
He's swayed a veteran group over to his way of thinking when all appeared lost.
That, people, is an Adams-worthy achievement. Not that he gives two hoots, but if the Flames do reach the post-season, he richly deserves consideration at the June 'do in Vegas. If they could somehow crack the Top Four and nail down home-ice for the first round, it should be a slam dunk.
It seems a lifetime, not 82 days, that not-so-long-ago morning in Anaheim when the stench of change permeated the Honda Center like a gas leak, when the coach's future apparently hung by a thread.
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Tags: brent+sutter, calgary+flames
Five Things the Flames Should Do
by Tony on 06/24/10 at 10:49 AM ET
From the Calgary Herald's Scott Cruickshank:
1. Become a draft-day player
As it is, Flames director of scouting Tod Button doesn't get a chance to clear his throat till the 64th pick (which represents the third-round choice the team got from the Columbus Blue Jackets in exchange for Anton Stralman).
Getting into the first two rounds would be swell, particularly for an organization with a dearth of forward prospects.
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Tags: calgary+flames, nhl-hockey
Flames GM has Shown Draft-Day Guile in the Past
OK, what would you do?
Your team has zero selections in the first two rounds of this week's National Hockey League draft in Los Angeles.
Your team was the third oldest, and the most senior of the non-playoff outfits.
Your team produced the fewest goals in the entire league.
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Iginla Remembers Nerves, Excitement on his NHL Draft Day
From the Calgary Herald's Vicki Hall:
Jarome Iginla plans to flick on his television Friday night and take in the soap opera better known as the NHL Entry Draft.
In doing so, the Calgary Flames captain predicts his annual round of sympathy pains for the young men in starched suits and breath-constricting neckties.
"I remember my draft day," Iginla says via telephone from his off-season home in Kelowna, B.C. "I don't think I've ever been that nervous — or that excited — in my whole life."
Flames will wear 'heritage' jerseys at 2011 outdoor Classic
Stock up on the long underwear, Calgary. Pull that giant winter parka out of the closet along with those mitts, tuque, scarf and boots.
The National Hockey League competition committee granted approval Friday for the Calgary Flames to host the Heritage Classic outdoor game Sunday, Feb. 20, 2011.
The venue? McMahon Stadium. The opposition? Michael Cammalleri and the Montreal Canadiens.
Only one formality remains: ratification by the NHL Players Association next week in Chicago.
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New tax legislation was signed into law at the end of 2017, and it included some significant changes for homeowners. These changes took effect in 2018 and do not influence your 2017 taxes. Here's a brief overview of this year's tax changes and how they may affect you.
Under the old law taxpayers could deduct the interest they paid on a mortgage of up to $1 million. The new law reduces the mortgage interest deduction from $1 million to $750,000.
These changes do not affect mortgages taken out before December 15, 2017.
The home equity loan deduction has been changed.
The IRS states that despite newly-enacted restrictions on home mortgages, taxpayers can often still deduct interest on a home equity loan, home equity line of credit (HELOC) or second mortgage, regardless of how the loan is labeled. The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, enacted December 22, suspends the deduction for interest paid on home equity loans and lines of credit unless they are used to buy, build or substantially improve the taxpayer's home that secures the loan. The deduction would be suspended from 2018 until 2026.
Previously, homeowners could deduct unreimbursed casualty, disaster and theft losses on their property. That deduction has been repealed, with an exception for losses on property located in a federally declared disaster area – an important victory!
Homeowners can continue to exclude up to $500,000 for joint filers or $250,000 for single filers for capital gains when selling their primary residence as long as they have lived in the home for two of the past five years. An earlier proposal would have increased that requirement to five out of the last eight years and phase out the exclusion for high-income households, but it was struck down.
Find out more about 2018 tax reform.
The changes in real estate related taxes may change your strategy. Contact one of our agents to go over your options and answer any questions you may have.


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'Little People, Big World': Jackson Roloff Gets Hands Dirty with Grandma Amy
November 11, 2020 Veronica Sharp 794 Views Jackson Roloff
Little People, Big World's Jackson Roloff doesn't just get his hands dirty when he's over at the farm. In fact, he went to grandma Amy's recently and got his hands dirty there.
Little People, Big World: Jackson Roloff Loves to Explore
TLC's Jackson Roloff of Little People, Big World isn't afraid to help out. Sometimes he helps with the chickens, or he works on projects with his grandfather. He isn't even afraid to get his hands grimy when he goes fishing.
Even with the pandemic, Little People, Big World star Jackson and his family found some time to get away. They recently went to the Oregon coast. Not only did they go to a beach and play with their dog Murphy, but they also went to explore the aquarium.
His parents masked up and took Jackson Roloff from TV series Little People, Big World to see the fish. But it often seems like Jackson has just as much fun at home or with his grandparents. This outing, Jackson went to see his grandmother, Amy Roloff.
Jackson Helps Amy Roloff in the Kitchen
Amy of Little People, Big World let fans know she went for COVID-19 testing. And she said that she didn't have it, so she felt confident having Jackson Roloff come out for fun. In fact, both Jackson and his cousin Ember were going to spend time with Amy.
Jackson Roloff from Little People, Big World wanted to help with the food. He tried to use some tongs but they were too big so he couldn't. Finally, Amy had him stick his hands in the cheese and put it on top of the macaroni she fixed.
Amy also said Little People, Big World cutie Jackson would help her fix cupcakes later. Jackson brought his fish puppet that looked like Nemo. And both of them had a lot of fun fixing up the delicious dish for the cousin hang out.
Little People, Big World: Enjoying the New Normal
Tori Roloff, mom of the little star, said she didn't like the new normal. She said she felt bad for her son Jackson and her daughter Lilah Roloff. She just wanted them to have a normal childhood, but the pandemic keeps rolling.
Despite the new way the world is, it seems like the Little People, Big World family, finds ways to have fun. Whether it's social distancing in the aquarium or spending time with grandma, Tori wants her kids to have fun. And sometimes that is just her hopping on video and goofing off with her kids.
Whatever the case, it seems like LPBW sweetie Jackson doesn't even notice things are different. As a matter of fact, the children are rather resilient and have done better than adults with the whole process. Jackson's father, Zach Roloff, said having the farm property to go to make a big difference.
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'Little People, Big World': Jackson Roloff Terrified by Santa – Almost Has Concussion
'Little People Big World' – Matt, Dog Lucy & Baby J Photobomb Tourist on Roloff Farm
'Little People, Big World' Tori Roloff Slammed Over Baby J's Puppy Murphy
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I'm so pleased to offer Part 3 of the Postures of the Heart series! Today we'll talk about how vital it is that we ready ourselves to RECEIVE the life that Jesus offers us! He came that we would have life and have it abundantly! (John 10:10) Today we'll remember together some beautiful things that His life truly offers us…we can so easily forget, can't we? Talk to you soon!


Panseh Tsewole believes democracy in Africa has seen progress on some fronts, regression and complete rejection on others. As the continent moves forward into the future, many people and nations within it feel that democratization is inevitable, and even necessary, to remain competitive in a global economy, as well as for Africa to gain more influence on the world stage. However, Panseh Tsewole says we must account for the opinions and wishes of the African people and nations who do not wish to adopt democracy, whatever their reasons.
In Panseh Tsewole's view forcing democracy on unwilling African countries and their citizens is actually the antithesis of what is supposed to be at the heart of democracy: governance that accounts for the wishes of the people. From what Panseh Tsewole has observed, there needs to be some thoughtful conversations had about the tendency of African countries to be strictly for or against democracy. He believes it is quite possible for some countries on the continent to embrace democracy while others stick to their current systems of government, or even adopt different ways. In Panseh Tsewole opines the decision to democratize or not shouldn't result in any African nations or people being ostracized, nor treated favorably. Panseh Tsewole concludes it must come down to what is best for those particular regions and citizens, not what is wanted by outside influences.


Integrated circuits are composed hundreds, thousands and even hundreds of thousands of electronic components. These are formed on interlocking layers / wafers of silicon making it possible to create small individual electronic components. An example of the an integrated circuit with its many layers can be seen opposite.
If an area of an integrated circuit is magnified thousands of times its various layers can be seen. The drawing opposite shows three layers, each layer is shown as a specific colour. Although transistors and resistors do not look like typically sized components, the interlocking layers form miniature versions and they work in the same way.


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Q: List of nodes in a particular node in .csproj file with Powershell I would like to ask some help because I'm totally lost.
I would like to check whether nodes in a particular part of the .csproj files contains proper data or not. In the xml snippet below I would like to get back the value of the "title" under the PropertyGroup belongs to "Debug|x64" profile.
csproj file snippet
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
  <Project ToolsVersion="12.0" DefaultTargets="Build" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003">
    <Import Project="$(MSBuildExtensionsPath)\$(MSBuildToolsVersion)\Microsoft.Common.props" Condition="Exists('$(MSBuildExtensionsPath)\$(MSBuildToolsVersion)\Microsoft.Common.props')" />
    <PropertyGroup>
    ...
    </PropertyGroup>
    <PropertyGroup Condition="'$(Configuration)|$(Platform)' == 'Debug|x64'">
      <DebugSymbols>true</DebugSymbols>
      <OutputPath>bin\x64\Debug\</OutputPath>
      <DefineConstants>DEBUG;TRACE</DefineConstants>
      <DebugType>full</DebugType>
      <PlatformTarget>x64</PlatformTarget>
      <ErrorReport>prompt</ErrorReport>
      <CodeAnalysisRuleSet>MinimumRecommendedRules.ruleset</CodeAnalysisRuleSet>
      <!-- nuget stuff -->
      <title>Pet Project</title>
    </PropertyGroup>

Here is my powershell code:
function GetConfigPlatformNodeFromProjectFile($projectFile, $nodeIdentifier) {

    [xml] $pFile = Get-Content $projectFile
    $ns = New-Object System.Xml.XmlNamespaceManager -ArgumentList $pFile.NameTable
    $ns.AddNamespace("ns", $pFile.Project.GetAttribute("xmlns"))

    $nodes = $pFile.SelectNodes("//ns:Project/PropertyGroup[contains(@Condition,'Debug|x64')]", $ns)

    foreach($node in $nodes) {
        write-Host "node... " $node
    }
}

Problem is that the $nodes will be always 0. According to the articles here it should contains something more. The path is ok. I've checked many times. The xmlns attribute comes back properly. I think the problem is the xpath itself and the namespace, however I checked it many times by other XPath tools.
I don't know what I'm doing wrong in this case.
Thanks any help in advance!
András

A: Do you have to use xpath? Otherwise I would suggest something like this:
$file = [xml](gc .\test.csproj)

$file.Project.PropertyGroup | ? Condition -Like '*Debug|x64*' | select Title

A: I solved mine this way:
[xml]$Project = Get-Content -Path $Path
$ns = New-Object System.Xml.XmlNamespaceManager -ArgumentList $Project.NameTable
$ns.AddNamespace("ns", "http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003")
$Config = $Project.SelectSingleNode("//ns:Project/ns:PropertyGroup[contains(@Condition, 'Release')]", $ns)
if (-not $Config) {
    throw "Could not find configuration"
}

A: My requirement was to extract project build framework from cproj file. But my code allows to extract more data. You just need to modify it by your needs.
function GetProjectFrameworks([string]$projectName)
{
    Write-Host "GetProjectFrameworks Read Start---------------"

    $xml = [Xml](Get-Content "$projectName.csproj")
    $frameworkValue  = ""
    [bool] $frameworkjobDone = $false

    foreach($item in $xml.ChildNodes)
    {
        if($frameworkjobDone) { break }

        foreach($node in $item.ChildNodes)
        {
            if($frameworkjobDone) { break }

            foreach($obj in $node.ChildNodes)
            {
                if($obj.Name -Match 'TargetFramework')
                {
                    $frameworkValue = $obj.InnerXml
                    $frameworkjobDone = $true
                    break
                }
            }
        }
    }

    $FrameworkArray = ($frameworkValue -split ';')
    # foreach($fram in $FrameworkArray)
    # {
    #     Write-Host $fram
    # }
    Write-Host "GetProjectFrameworks Read Finish---------------"
    $FrameworkArray
}

Hope this will help somebody.

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M-Code Early Use Signal Achieves Operational Acceptance
The U.S. Space Force issued an operational acceptance certification for a military signal developed to equip warfighters with augmented anti-spoofing and anti-jamming capabilities. GPS Military-Code Early Use underwent a series of tests
by Matthew Nelson
USAF Extends Network User Capacity
The AFNet Sustainment and Operations branch collaborated with the Defense Information Systems Agency to expand the network capacity of the U.S. Air Force.
USAF Conducts Sustainability Test With Minuteman III Missile
Air Force Global Strike Command tested a Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile's flight and reentry to verify the weapon's reliability. The unarmed missile, also known as Flight Test Unit 2, flew with a reentry vehicle from Vandenberg Air
by Nichols Martin
14th Air Force Changes Name to Space Operations Command
U.S. Air Force Secretary Barbara Barrett ordered the redesignation of 14th AF as Space Operations Command when President Donald Trump signed the fiscal 2020 defense authorization bill on Dec. 20.
Strategic Capabilities Office Leads Ballistic Missile Test
The Strategic Capabilities Office and the 30th Space Wing demonstrated a prototype ground-launched ballistic missile during a flight test at the Vandenberg Air Force Base.
USSTRATCOM Chooses California-Based University to Support Debris Tracking
U.S. Strategic Command has selected California Polytechnic State University to support a global effort to track in-orbit objects via satellites. Cal Poly said Tuesday it holds 20 years of helping Vandenberg Air Force
UK Official Announces Expansion of Space Partnership With US Military
Penny Mordaunt, U.K. secretary of state for defense, said the U.K. government will send eight individuals to the U.S. in the next 18 months to support the Combined Space Operations Center at
Col. Michael Hough: Vandenberg AFB Sees 'Lull' in Space Launch Activity
The U.S. Air Force has initiated talks with some commercial launch service providers to lease Western Range launch pads at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California as space launch activity slows down,
DoD/News
Joint Space Operations Center Changes Name to Combined Space Operations Center
The Joint Space Operations Center has changed its designation to a Combined Space Operations Center during a ceremony that took place Wednesday at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The CSpOC will
Report: Congress Wants DoD to Increase Ground-Based Interceptors
Congress will authorize the Defense Department secretary to raise the number of ground-based interceptors at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California and Fort Greely in Alaska by up to 28 in an


I arrived at the venue at Clapham Junction to discover the training course I was due to attend had been cancelled. Others were annoyed about this. Admittedly it was all a bit inconvenient, plans had gone awry and if people were to travel back to work it would hardly be worth it. A day wasted! So I kept to myself the recognition of a golden opportunity for a slow drift back across London to eventually catch the train home, sometime after lunch. It seemed the obvious thing to do to me. But I knew others would consider it unusual, maybe baffling and possibly even reckless and irresponsible to embark on such acivity rather that try to get back home or even work as quickly and directly as possible.
The poster I saw later somewhere near Hyde Park appeared as sign of solidarity. As if put there by a support group offering self help memes for psychogeographers and flaneurs. Support for an activity some might consider a bit immoral: an act of idling, inefficiency or time wasting. Of not taking the direct route.
Prior to this revelation (the relentless sun, the need to pee and for a drink of water possibly intensified the importance of the notice), my wander had commenced at Falcon Road and through a bit of Battersea. Here I got earworm of the song 'Up The Junction', from the 60s film which was set in these parts, which intensified each time I approached a traffic junction. The frequency of traffic junctions seemed higher than normal. The song faded as I came across a way to the Thames Path, around the side of Falcon Wharf, a large Ballardian appartment building.
Heading into the Thames Path involved skirting the base of the building, which appeared to house a high end hotel and appartments with amenities including a 'wellbeing spa' and a 'baketique' according to the signage. Haven't spas always been promoted as having associations with wellbeing? As for 'baketique', I had to look that up and discovered it is a term for an establishment selling American cupcakes. The internet says this one is permenently closed. The recent cupcake craze is evidently at an end. I've never been sure of the difference between cupcakes, muffins or 'buns' as my nanna called the ones she made. My nannas only came in chocolate or 'plain' flavour. Cupcakes meanwhile seemed to be available in an infinate variety. Too much choice possibly confusing even the most 'sophisticated' consumer was probably their downfall as much as price and sugar content.
Round the corner, a posh woman was rebuking a young man who had been cleaning the railings and then proceeded to empty the contents of his bucket into the river. She'd approached him and told him what he had just done was illegal. Maybe it was. But I'd have thought his 'crimes' would pale into insignificance when compared to the history of people polluting the Thames and I doubt he will be responsible for the next cholera epidemic or doubling in size of London's Fatbergs.
Not hanging about to witness the outcome of the womans overzelous intervention, I carried on along the river path past several new developments I imagined were designed for the 'exclusive' end of the market . A notice politely asked 'please keep off the grass'. The grass in question was a narrow strip so small it seemed barely worth maintaining and the sun had done it's best to bring about its demise.
Across the river, I had noticed a cluster of tower blocks. Rather than the usual grey concrete, or modern steel/glass they appeared to be made out of brown brick. A high rise version of Wentworth Prison perhaps. Or maybe more exclusive flats, from an earlier period. A Sloan Ranger Thamesmead.
The effectiveness of 'business watch' looked in doubt, the eye on the fading notice deteriorating as if afflicted by a cateract.
I carried on without observing much else of interest until I got to Chelsea Bridge. I'm sure there were things to notice but I'd gone into a sort not-noticing state, a combination of the rythm of walking gently and the brutal heat as time moved beyond midday.
From this point my walk took in numerous other figures and statues. The Colossus above seemed to be standing in defiance of the towerblock opposite. This isn't shown that well in the picture, but I couldnt get an optimum angle due to some excitable Italian kids playing frisbee around the base of the statue. The shield from this angle resembles a large friabee, or discuss, which may explained their presence.
Out of Hyde Park and onto the concrete square of Marbel Arch, I came across a behemothic green something. A giant headless semi-amorphous beast from an imagined collaboration between Ray Harryhausen and Salvador Dali appeared to be heading towards me. The square was like a 60s concrete version of a classical square, the Marble Arch looming over it. The sort of place Sinbad or the Argonauts would fight beasts or animated skeletons if they were living in a semi-brutalist age. Voices sought my attention. Not skeletons with swords, or allies in the fight against the giant beast, but tourists wanting me to take their picture in front of the Arch. I obliged, hoping I'd pressed the right button on the camera before wishing them a good day and leaving the square.
Along Oxford Street I fell into line with the tide of shoppers drifting in the direction of Oxford Circus. Looking up, the splendid art deco statue of the winged figure above Selfridges looked like another Harryhausan creation. I half expected it the creek into life and fly across the sea of shoppers and tourists who were probably too focussed on the ground floor to have noticed it.
Soon after crossing Oxford Circus I headed left into Fitzrovia/NOHO and soon located The Champion where I stopped for a swift half and a bag of crisps. I was glad to see it looked barely any different following its recent refurb, and still offered haven of welcoming dark brown and shade. Particularly welcome given the intense heat and bright sun outside.
I resisted the temptation to visit the Blue Posts or the Fitzroy Tavern and wound my way towards Tottenham Court Road. I followed a narrow passage which emerged into a courtyard. On a platform outside a first floor window was an unusual display. A strange boy like figure breaching towards a manequin, with a cast of supporting but no less odd figures dotted about, inside a white frame. What this meant I had no idea. I continued down the passage and out eventually of Fitzrovia.
Not long after this I found myself in the vicinity of the University of London and the streets around Mallet Street where the ULU building still seems to put gigs on. The buildings are large, flat roofed and brown sporting crittle windows. This brought to mind images of boffins in white coats huddled over testbtubes or bearded, rollnecked open university types standing in front of writing beamed from an overhead projector onto a wonky screen.
Along this stretch somewhere I saw the message below on a telecoms/electricity box. What is to be opposed is a far right organisation. I'd not heard of them so googled the term, only to find I was being diverted somewhere within 5 seconds. I twigged it was dodgy and further Google searches confirmed the worst. Before this I had assumed it was the work of people not wanting to be labelled 'millenials', ' gen x' or babyboomers etc, given current attempts to divide people by generation as well race, sexuality, gender, class and suchlike.
Emerging from the University area into Tavistock Square I passed The Tavistock Hotel. I was familiar with it, having stayed there a few times many moons ago. It was one of the few London hotels within our price range. It was a bit like going back in time to it's 1930s(?) art Deco era. The waiters and waitresses in the large breakfast room.were dressed in black and white, and appeared to have been there for an eternity. There was a satisfying ever so slightly damp smell in the rooms which had not, thankfully, been modernised. My last memory of the vicinity was going the the Bloomsbury Bowling Lanes located in the basement on one corner of the hotel, to see The London Dirthole Company. There were people playing bowls while the band played i think. Sadly I didn't stay in the hotel on that occasion.
A final pertinent message from Virginia Woolf, echoing the sentiments of the Hyde Park Poster, was quoted via the hotel bar windows: 'The Streets of London have their maps, but our passions are unchartered. What are you going to meet if you turn this corner?' The ghosts Bloomsbury were on my side, advocating not taking the direct route.
I wandered away from the river past the Key Theatre, where a group of office workers were hanging around outside, evidently undertaking some sort of team building activity or training. Flipchart paper was stuck on the windows where they congregated. Otherwise the building looked deserted. The cafe/restaurant/bar which was partly what attracted me over in the first place, was closed. Maybe the office workers were planning a strategy. If they were, it looked like they were unsure of what it might be and were in no rush to reach a decision.
Just past the gathering I noticed a white box like brick construction half emersed in the ground like a bunker. There was a sort of grill through which some sort of electronic device was kept. Maybe meters for utilities, but it seemed an odd place to keep them. It looked like an oversized microwave oven made of brick, or the back of a refrigerator that was buried three quarters into the ground. It was facing directly at the theatre and the office workers, as if observing them.
Just before I encountered the office workers, I had seen another 'box'. This one had been smashed up, the lid and grill had gone and the electronic device was exposed. I hadn't taken much notice until I came across the second one, still in tact. What these bizarre structures were, or what the devices inside them did, I had no idea. Who had smashed up the first? The office workers? Had they been overcome by some terrible malaise causing them to destroy technology that frightened them, similar to the situation described in the peculiarly sinister children's TV series 'The Changes'? Perhaps they knew something the rest of us didn't and were planning on fleeing the city to find a safe haven in the country, or at the coast, or in France. Somewhere away from the constant stare of the observatory bunkers.
On the way home from work, near the station waiting to cross the road I witnessed a bizarre figure go by on a motorbike. It wore a vest made out of what looked like armour over a leather jacket, metal gloves and boots and a horned helmet. The latter made the head resemble a junior version of the 'Scafolk Beast'. A devil-biker. Psychomania. Music was emanating from the motorbike which was decorated with horns and other pariphenalia.
A being sent through a gap in the fabric of space and time, from an age of early 80s Italian Mad Max rip-off films. An Exterminator of the Year 3000 from a place where water is so scare people kill for it, while fuel, guns and ammo are plentiful. Today the first hospipe ban in Britain was announced. We haven't had rain for about 2 months. Could the appearance of this post-apocalypic figure really be a coincidence?
I later discovered this was in fact the 'Viker Biker', a local 'character' who assumes a part Viking/part knight persona and is probably the nearest thing Peterborough has to a superhero. He says if he happens to be near someone in trouble he trys to help, and he seems to want to cheer people up. If I'd have been watching About Anglia closely enough in 2005 I would have already knew all this.
More certain that apocalypse by drought was unlikely having seen some clouds and the About Anglia clip, or that gangs dressed in spikey leather driving spikey cars were not about to start maurading in the remains of a desolate East Anglia, my mind was diverted to 'characters' that inhabit every town and city. Cambridge has had its fair share over the years, Disco Kenny, The Man-With-The-Loaf of bread on his head, IRA Shouty Man and many others. The nearest Cambridge has to the Viker Biker is Heavy Metal Biker Man, a bloke on a racing bike with a ghetto blaster in a plastic bag that blasts out tinny heavy rock. These people are essential parts of the city they inhabit. Like human pieces of 'folk art' they are creations of themselves alone, often by accident. They are the antithesis of the 'clone town'. Long may they continue.
The recent prolonged hot spell finally over. I'd been lethargic, mush brained and irritable. Not inspired to walk, blog or do anything very much else. But today I felt newly energised, lighter, in need of a wander.
Lunchtime I headed out, no destination in mind. I passed an avant garde road works sign, depicting what looked like a black sun and a torch, which by a trick of light had it's beam provided by the real sun. A sign that pointed the way, encouraged me to take my time, do a longer walk than usual if I felt like it (I did).
I turned onto Lincoln Road, deciding to head in the rough direction of the Hand and Heart pub, my only point of reference for the area. This part of Lincoln Road is a somewhat ramshackle and dilapidated affair. The buildings are a crumbly. The street brought to mind how I imagined somewhere like Hackney to have looked in the 70s or 80s, or maybe Bradford as dipicted in the film East is East. The latter maybe due to the obvious multi-cultural character of the area. There is a large Muslim population as well as a Portuguese and Eastern European presence. A mural on the back of a large food shop celebrated the community of the area, known as Millfield. The feeling was different to that of Mill Road in Cambridge where a mural on the bridge has similar sentiments. Or the hipster streetart of Hackney and Shoreditch. This felt more of an honest attempt at creating cohesion and part of an effort to heal tensions that had existed in the past, created by the people involved rather than the remote concerned. There were no signs of the middle class 'do gooder' to be seen.
Not far from here on a back street is the Hand on Heart. The 1930s flat roofed Square building is both utilitarian and spectacular. It's renowned for keeping the best beer in Peterborough. The sort of back street pub that is rare as hen's teeth these days, but once would have been a ubiquitous feature of most towns and cities. The pub sign, a surreal giant hand either giving a friendly wave or possibly a command to stop, take some time out, slack off and have a pint. I hadn't intended to stop for a drink on this occasion, which was just as well. The curtains were still drawn. They don't open till 3 on weekdays. To my shame I've only visited the establishment once before and I resolved to return at the earliest opportunity.
I wandered through the backstreets in the general direction of back-to- work. Further along I passed an unassuming end of terrace building, housing on the ground floor PG Reeves Pneumatic and Compressed Air Specialists, possibly a relic from from the 50s. Above this was the 'Kurdish Association In Britain Kurdish Centre'. A combination that appeared to represent a genuine and most likely wholly accidental mix of cultures. I suppose it might have been the Kurds dispensing the compressed air but in my imagination the shop was run by a man who resembled Roy Cropper from Coronation Street.
The coming together of cultures was further represented by artwork on an electricity/telecoms box I encountered soon after. Hands shaking amist a swirl of either ribbons or tentacles of a colourful beast. This was part of a series of three 'arted up' boxes in a row, the doing of someone or something called 'Ink Spot'. One of the others depicting trees. The third an old beared man patting donkey and featuring the RSPCA logo.
I headed back to work strangely optimistic and refreshed. This despite England getting knocked out of the world cup the night before, the imminent arrival of Donald Trump to these shores and news of the closure of The Golden Curry on Mill Road and it's replacement by a wine bar. It wasn't all gloom.


Abstract: Data sketches are approximate succinct summaries of long streams. They are widely used for processing massive amounts of data and answering statistical queries about it in real-time. Existing libraries producing sketches are very fast, but do not allow parallelism for creating sketches using multiple threads or querying them while they are being built. We present a generic approach to parallelising data sketches efficiently, while bounding the error that such parallelism introduces. Utilising relaxed semantics and the notion of strong linearisability we prove our algorithm's correctness and analyse the error it induces in two specific sketches. Our implementation achieves high scalability while keeping the error small.


Russell Finex extends vibrating screens range 19 January 2012 Mark Holmes The Russell Compact Sieve is now available in five different sizes, ranging from a 10 inch (25.4 cm) laboratory unit up to a 60 inch (152.4 cm) production scale unit.
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If a patient goes to hospital the staff may complete an assessment to see if they are at risk of having a fall. They would like to reduce the number of falls that happen while people are in their care and they may discuss strategies that can reduce the chances of the patient having a fall.
For more information see the fact sheet Keeping safe and independent in hospital.