We’ve gone on about the big issues of the Calgary Flames off-season for a long time now: what’s happening with TJ Brodie and/or Michael Frolik? What’s happening with Matthew Tkachuk? How can we lose players and also get better? Et cetera, et cetera.
Let’s give everyone a break from that conversation and look at some of the more minor issues: interesting cap circumvention, what’s happening with minor league players, and old player ideas we all forgot about.
Conspiracy theory: Flames offer to take Marian Hossa's contract from Arizona + a draft choice, then pulls a Dubas puts him on LTIR, giving us room enuf to sign Chucky & maybe another F.