32 thoughts: Ownership thinks we don’t want a rebuild cause there wasn’t a jersey on the ice Saturday 🥲
November 24, 2025
How can we get our point across??
28 comments
I don’t want to get a bad image of our fan base by throwing jerseys for wins just to get the point across. Do we start some chants or something (like Fire Nico with the Mavs)?
Listen to Friedman. It’s actually a good episode. What’s in the header isn’t what was said.
Stop buying merchandise. Stop going to games. If it’s the bottom line they care about, then hit their bottom line
It’s not that they don’t think fans want a rebuild. It’s that their revenue won’t be impacted by angry fans on social media so they don’t care
> They will ask themselves, is this just a vocal online group
The answer is yes. The large majority of the fan base has no idea who Maloney even is, let alone that there was an interview. It’s why things will never change for this org. Until people stop going to games, change will never occur. And the sad reality is most flames fans will buy tickets regardless of the teams direction
This is the first time I’m hearing about a jersey on the ice, I’m assuming this was the Winnipeg game. I don’t remember seeing any photos or posts on the Reddit
I think part of the reason there were no chants on Saturday is because of what night it was. It’s a really bad look to be making the night about the fanbase and firing an executive when it’s supposed to be about kids with cancer. If we lose on this upcoming road trip and the messaging from management stays the same, then the chants will start.
“believe they can never truly be bad with Wolf.” … welcome back the Montreal Carey Price’s
unfortunately you can’t. “DONALD T lite” Maloney and Edwards are too far up their own ass to care about any facts/advanced stats about this team.
This team on paper doesnt look good, on-ice has been a mixed bag at best. Huska’s famous Chatgpt clip, even he admits this team lacks a top goal scorer that other teams have.
This team always learns the wrong lessons from every situation we’ve been in. 14-15 season puck luck team for example.
Here is the thing that will be unpopular on Reddit: The outrage is from a small minority of the fanbase. If you dug into the numbers, it is probably a couple hundred people complaining across all platforms. If you interviewed fans coming/going from the games I can almost guarantee you would have difficulty finding more than a couple who had even heard of the “scandal.”
I spent the weekend at a hockey tournament surrounded by Flames fans and it didn’t come up once. I went to Sunday dinner at my parents house surrounded by family members who are all Flames fans, and the discussion was about whether the Flames would finish outside the bottom 5; and there was no discussion of the comments.
The reality is that the vast majority of fans have little knowledge of who Maloney is, have no understanding of the inner workings of the organization, couldn’t name 2 prospects, and don’t have a clue what the Flames have as far as draft capital. They mostly just want to watch hockey games, drink a couple of beers, and have a good time.
Saw a quote from the Maloney interview about how the only tine you get to experience the good feeling of having the first overall pick is at the draft.
Thats got to be tue dumbest thing ive ever heard. I mean dunk on the Oilers all you want for losing in SCF twice. But ask any Oilers fan if they have had a “good” feeling drafting McDavid after the draft. Night in, night out, they have someone absolutely electric to cheer about. Sorry, but watching 35 year old Nazeem Kadri doesnt do it for me. I love the guy, but I wont be spending a dime on this franchise going forward if they dont atleast try to embrace the tank a bit. Good luck with that new arena.
Well ya it’s fucking November, of course there’s no reasonable offers yet. Every team still thinks they can turn it around with their own guys and maybe some call ups from the A
Now once we get closer to the Olympic break the offers will be more reasonable
I mean can you blame them? Yes of course you can
But in the end none of the fans threw a jersey on the ice or started a chant, if nobody was willing to do it, not hard to see why they’ll just ignore people lol
That’s neither what that says there or what he says in the podcast.
The Win Column writers should pool their collective allowances and get it done themselves if they’re going to bitch about it so much.
I kind of feel tossing a jersey on the ice is because you have given up on the players and team and not really a direct message to ownership. I think the overwhelming majority of fans are expecting this team to lose a lot so throwing a jersey isn’t really accomplishing anything.
Ooof who’s throwing a jersey after a win? I’m not falling for this bait to try and get me to throw away a $200 jersey. We should make a push to throw towels instead, or white flags.
I don’t really understand what went down last week.
To have Maloney come out and say they are happy with the core Conroy has put together, and then basically give a no comment on his contract renewal, then immediately say the team has underperformed and then praise Huska. It seemed kind of backwards.
I guess the good news is, if you “love this core” it sounds like they are keeping it.
If you want the tank, well, the good news is the Flames aren’t planning any changes to improve on what has been a terrible season so far.
Maybe it will be a win-win.
When we started off bad, I joked to my Oilers fan friends if they had a jersey that I could throw on the ice, because I wanted to protest, but not with a good jersey!
Click bait title that doesn’t properly explain the tweet or what was said in the podcast.
Don’t buy tickets/merch – its that simple. Chuckin’ a Jersey you’ve already paid for isn’t going to have the impact you think it has. Empty seats is the answer.
What? No Jerseys on the ice, or angry chants after a shootout win. What’s wrong with these fans?
What’s a good offer though? My concern is that Ownership overvalues these players. Maloney certainly made it clear how highly they think of Kadri. I like Kadri too, but he isnt getting any younger, and once his drop off starts, they definitely won’t get any “good offers” for him. It would be one thing if the Club acknowledged that the rough start was brining in low ball offers, and they would rather wait until these players are producing at a better clip to drive up the price. But the message to fans seems to be an acceptance to ride these guys until the wheels fall off.
well i spent a fuck ton of money on season tickets. so boycotting is out of the picture for me.
paper bags with “rebuild please” will be my answer.
Guys, I’m going to keep saying it until it sinks in.
They have to sell tickets. They have to sell merch. They have to cultivate sponsorships. They need to continue to cultivate suite sales. They have to drive trade value as high as they can.
If you say “We are going to purposely play young guys / not trade vets, etc so we can draft #1” it is absolutely going to affect all of those above. You can’t just say “we don’t care about 2025” out loud.
Come on, man. You are smarter than that to think otherwise. It makes no sense business wise to admit mistakes right now or admit they have to rebuild.
Let’s just stop buying tickets to the games 🙂
We have to be bad before we will be good. Why isn’t this obvious???
Why continue being mid forever?
Guys we’re just starting our 30 game win streak don’t worry everything is gonna be fine
28 comments
I don’t want to get a bad image of our fan base by throwing jerseys for wins just to get the point across. Do we start some chants or something (like Fire Nico with the Mavs)?
Listen to Friedman. It’s actually a good episode. What’s in the header isn’t what was said.
Stop buying merchandise. Stop going to games. If it’s the bottom line they care about, then hit their bottom line
It’s not that they don’t think fans want a rebuild. It’s that their revenue won’t be impacted by angry fans on social media so they don’t care
> They will ask themselves, is this just a vocal online group
The answer is yes. The large majority of the fan base has no idea who Maloney even is, let alone that there was an interview. It’s why things will never change for this org. Until people stop going to games, change will never occur. And the sad reality is most flames fans will buy tickets regardless of the teams direction
This is the first time I’m hearing about a jersey on the ice, I’m assuming this was the Winnipeg game. I don’t remember seeing any photos or posts on the Reddit
I think part of the reason there were no chants on Saturday is because of what night it was. It’s a really bad look to be making the night about the fanbase and firing an executive when it’s supposed to be about kids with cancer. If we lose on this upcoming road trip and the messaging from management stays the same, then the chants will start.
“believe they can never truly be bad with Wolf.” … welcome back the Montreal Carey Price’s
unfortunately you can’t. “DONALD T lite” Maloney and Edwards are too far up their own ass to care about any facts/advanced stats about this team.
This team on paper doesnt look good, on-ice has been a mixed bag at best. Huska’s famous Chatgpt clip, even he admits this team lacks a top goal scorer that other teams have.
This team always learns the wrong lessons from every situation we’ve been in. 14-15 season puck luck team for example.
Here is the thing that will be unpopular on Reddit: The outrage is from a small minority of the fanbase. If you dug into the numbers, it is probably a couple hundred people complaining across all platforms. If you interviewed fans coming/going from the games I can almost guarantee you would have difficulty finding more than a couple who had even heard of the “scandal.”
I spent the weekend at a hockey tournament surrounded by Flames fans and it didn’t come up once. I went to Sunday dinner at my parents house surrounded by family members who are all Flames fans, and the discussion was about whether the Flames would finish outside the bottom 5; and there was no discussion of the comments.
The reality is that the vast majority of fans have little knowledge of who Maloney is, have no understanding of the inner workings of the organization, couldn’t name 2 prospects, and don’t have a clue what the Flames have as far as draft capital. They mostly just want to watch hockey games, drink a couple of beers, and have a good time.
Saw a quote from the Maloney interview about how the only tine you get to experience the good feeling of having the first overall pick is at the draft.
Thats got to be tue dumbest thing ive ever heard. I mean dunk on the Oilers all you want for losing in SCF twice. But ask any Oilers fan if they have had a “good” feeling drafting McDavid after the draft. Night in, night out, they have someone absolutely electric to cheer about. Sorry, but watching 35 year old Nazeem Kadri doesnt do it for me. I love the guy, but I wont be spending a dime on this franchise going forward if they dont atleast try to embrace the tank a bit. Good luck with that new arena.
Well ya it’s fucking November, of course there’s no reasonable offers yet. Every team still thinks they can turn it around with their own guys and maybe some call ups from the A
Now once we get closer to the Olympic break the offers will be more reasonable
I mean can you blame them? Yes of course you can
But in the end none of the fans threw a jersey on the ice or started a chant, if nobody was willing to do it, not hard to see why they’ll just ignore people lol
That’s neither what that says there or what he says in the podcast.
The Win Column writers should pool their collective allowances and get it done themselves if they’re going to bitch about it so much.
I kind of feel tossing a jersey on the ice is because you have given up on the players and team and not really a direct message to ownership. I think the overwhelming majority of fans are expecting this team to lose a lot so throwing a jersey isn’t really accomplishing anything.
Ooof who’s throwing a jersey after a win? I’m not falling for this bait to try and get me to throw away a $200 jersey. We should make a push to throw towels instead, or white flags.
I don’t really understand what went down last week.
To have Maloney come out and say they are happy with the core Conroy has put together, and then basically give a no comment on his contract renewal, then immediately say the team has underperformed and then praise Huska. It seemed kind of backwards.
I guess the good news is, if you “love this core” it sounds like they are keeping it.
If you want the tank, well, the good news is the Flames aren’t planning any changes to improve on what has been a terrible season so far.
Maybe it will be a win-win.
When we started off bad, I joked to my Oilers fan friends if they had a jersey that I could throw on the ice, because I wanted to protest, but not with a good jersey!
Click bait title that doesn’t properly explain the tweet or what was said in the podcast.
Don’t buy tickets/merch – its that simple. Chuckin’ a Jersey you’ve already paid for isn’t going to have the impact you think it has. Empty seats is the answer.
What? No Jerseys on the ice, or angry chants after a shootout win. What’s wrong with these fans?
What’s a good offer though? My concern is that Ownership overvalues these players. Maloney certainly made it clear how highly they think of Kadri. I like Kadri too, but he isnt getting any younger, and once his drop off starts, they definitely won’t get any “good offers” for him. It would be one thing if the Club acknowledged that the rough start was brining in low ball offers, and they would rather wait until these players are producing at a better clip to drive up the price. But the message to fans seems to be an acceptance to ride these guys until the wheels fall off.
well i spent a fuck ton of money on season tickets. so boycotting is out of the picture for me.
paper bags with “rebuild please” will be my answer.
Guys, I’m going to keep saying it until it sinks in.
They have to sell tickets. They have to sell merch. They have to cultivate sponsorships. They need to continue to cultivate suite sales. They have to drive trade value as high as they can.
If you say “We are going to purposely play young guys / not trade vets, etc so we can draft #1” it is absolutely going to affect all of those above. You can’t just say “we don’t care about 2025” out loud.
Come on, man. You are smarter than that to think otherwise. It makes no sense business wise to admit mistakes right now or admit they have to rebuild.
Let’s just stop buying tickets to the games 🙂
We have to be bad before we will be good. Why isn’t this obvious???
Why continue being mid forever?
Guys we’re just starting our 30 game win streak don’t worry everything is gonna be fine