This past weekend the American Hockey League in the form of the Toronto Marlies and Hamilton Bulldogs rolled into Edinburgh and it taught the two EIHL teams it came up against a hockey lesson in the inaugural Gardiner Cup. Fortunately or unfortunately the Giants happened to be one of the teams at the wrong end of the scorelines when they got shutout and taken apart handily by the Hamilton Bulldogs 6-0. It shouldn’t effect the Giants long term, and in fact they seemed to put it to the back of their minds the following day when they beat the Edinburgh Capitals in the 3rd place game/Challenge Cup match. Inevitably the Marlies and the Bulldogs ended up in the final against one another with the Bulldogs taking the victory and the cup with it.

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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.

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