There were good times.
And then there was the entire 2004-03 Alberta Junior Hockey League campaign which saw the Brooks Bandits win only 11 of 60 regular season games.
“We had some bad, bad road trips,” chuckled Chad Johnson on Thursday morning in the Calgary Flames locker-room. “I remember one time we had come back from Fort Mac and got in at 3 a.m. The coach and trainer were so mad that we ended up running around the town for, like, an hour as a team.
“It was just one of those years where every little thing that could go wrong went wrong.