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Do You Consider The Flames As The Favorite?
by Paul on 07/02/09 at 09:55 PM ET
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from Bruce Dowbiggin of the Globe and Mail,
Say this about the hockey media. They like busy.
Many of the hockey-panel shows and instant analysts in the blogosphere were quick to anoint the Calgary Flames as the early winners in the NHL rearmament race after the Flames signed defenceman Jay Bouwmeester to a five-year, $33-million (all currency U.S.) contract. “I think he’s the best defenceman out there,” Jay Feaster, former general manager of the Tampa Bay Lightning, said on TSN. “They got him. I think they’re the best defence in the West right now.”
These would be the same Flames who were anointed Stanley Cup favourites by the same voices at the trade deadline when they picked up “big centre” Olli Jokinen and mobile defenceman Jordan Leopold. Former player Matthew Barnaby was one of the few to point out Jokinen’s liabilities; on TSN he called the Finnish centre a “cancer”. Many other talking heads glossed over Jokinen’s fabled lack of industry, however.
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