Reporting this is hardly reporting considering the news broke almost a week ago but I figured I’d mention it in passing anyway, if only for record sake.

Theo didn’t make the Calgary Flames NHL team. He was cut in the final few days of camp after putting up four points in four games as well as a shootout winner. It wasn’t enough for the Flames management who were only going to sign Theo if he could play on the top two lines. It appears he couldn’t in their eyes. Theo addressed this at the start of the week and decided he would call it a day on his NHL career and comeback attempt but was happy to have been given the shot, to have proven to himself he could hold his own in the NHL, to pull on the Flames jersey again and to go out of the NHL on his terms and with class.

This will have done Theo’s chances of one day making the NHL hall-of-fame no harm at all and I hope he does make it in.

So now I have no choice but to root against Calgary in every game this season in the hopes they will see the errors of their way in not signing Theo. This plan is unlikely to go anywhere however because as I type this the Flames are in the middle of their first NHL game of the new season and leading 3-0.

It’s a shame it didn’t work out for the little man because the story of his comeback was of Hollywood proportions and from what I seen there was no doubt he could have hooked onto another team if he had wanted to look for other suitors and at the very least started out in the AHL to prove his worth further. He didn’t seem to want to go anywhere but Calgary and so called it a day … something that only a year or two ago seemed like he would never get the chance to do.

But if Theo wants to play some hockey still he’d be very welcome back in Belfast.

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