Passenger Trains > Calgary Flames travel in style

They're an NHL hockey team, for all you American guys who are saying "Who?!";)

https://www.nhl.com/news/calgary-flames-wear-vintage-clothing-on-train-trip-to-washington-dc/c-293129856?tid=281396148



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Hey, some of us attended Atlanta Flames home games.

Waaaay cool

Cool!

Very nice, but I would have been more impressed if they had traveled in their chartered train to Washington DC from CALGARY!.

Back in the day, those wouldn't have been fake cigars! When two teams traveled on the same overnight train, say between Montreal and Chicago after a Saturday night Hab's win, it is told that no player from the opposing team would enter the diner if members of the hated other team were there. How times have changed. Now the players hang out with opposing team members and of course there are no trains with proper diners between any of the the "original six" cities and only sleepers between Chicago and NY/Boston which take way longer than in the Original Six days. It should also be noted, that even when not dressed in vintage attire, NHL players all look like the professionals they are when arriving at the various arenas, not like their NBA and NFL counterparts who have no regard for the cities they represent given their appearance.

Aren't NFL players required to travel with jacket, tie, socks, etc? They tend to make a very fly appearance, as a group.

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Just plain awesome!

Thanks for sharing that..very cool.........

Traveling back in time (by train?) as the article states. Hence they decided to look the part.

ctillnc Wrote:
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> Hey, some of us attended Atlanta Flames home
> games.


Respect.

ctillnc Wrote:
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> Hey, some of us attended Atlanta Flames home
> games.


Just not enough of you or they would still be there 😀

Dave

OT but it wasn't so much an attendance failure (http://www.hockeydb.com/nhl-attendance/att_graph.php?tmi=4680) as an arena failure and a TV failure. The Omni was a truly awful place for fans and players alike, and the Flames never had a consistent TV plan. As to why the Thrashers didn't cut it, I moved away from Atlanta in 1986 and I don't have any first-hand knowledge.



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ctillnc Wrote:
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> Hey, some of us attended Atlanta Flames home
> games.

Old time hockey!

Head on a swivel, pucks to the net !

With no new arena in sight, they should go back to Atlanta!! ;) *Edmontonian/Oilers fan!* All joking aside, I think a couple original six should do an old school train trip aboard the Canadian like the old days.

BCR_766 Wrote:
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> With no new arena in sight, they should go back to
> Atlanta!! ;) *Edmontonian/Oilers fan!* All joking
> aside, I think a couple original six should do an
> old school train trip aboard the Canadian like the
> old days.

See my post here of the Original six travel in the past:

https://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?11,4259591,4259756#msg-4259756

xcnsnake Wrote:
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> They're an NHL hockey team, for all you American
> guys who are saying "Who?!";)
>
> https://www.nhl.com/news/calgary-flames-wear-vint
> age-clothing-on-train-trip-to-washington-dc/c-2931
> 29856?tid=281396148


I don't see the "old fella" in the photo.

Rick