When the calendar hits July 1st, Dennis Wideman will officially be off the Calgary Flames’ books, and become a free agent.
It will signify a true end of an era in Calgary. Not an individualized era of Dennis Wideman, but it will signal a true end to the style and management of the late 2000’s-early 2010’s Flames.
Propelled by an unlikely but glorious trip to the Stanley Cup Finals in 2004 and a division title the next season, the Flames slowly became organizationally stagnated in that they would continue to add older veterans over youth to the team to try and maintain those first couple years of success.