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Red Wings crashed the Calgary Flames in Detroit

Saturday, April 21st, 2007 posted by SkGold

Once again the Detroit Red Wings crashed the Calgary Flames in Detroit, this time 5:1. Regardless of the score, the Flames played much better than in the first and second quarterfinal game. They showed much more effort, but who cares the Calgary Flames lost and lost big.

There is no surprise that the Red Wings out shot the Flames 38-24. Miikka Kiprusoff made very good saves through traffic, however he could only stop 33 shots.

There were so many turnovers especially in the second period. The Flames allowed 2 short-handed goals. Read the rest of this article »

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Calgary Stampede Auction Reaches Record High of $4 Million

Saturday, April 21st, 2007 posted by Mamasaid

Calgary Stampede Statue It seems that the roof was almost blown off the Archie Boyce Pavilion when the 17 annual Calgary Stampede canvas auction was kicked off with a record bid and the sale topped the record with over 4 million bucks bid.

Last year the total bid record was 2.86 million bucks, which was erased by the major amount expended at this year’s auction.

The average bid at this year’s auction was a few cents over $111,208. The first seven drivers auctioned sold for a total of 1.1 million dollars and the 2 million dollar mark was exceeded after the fifteenth driver was purchased.
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Boys Dies After Emergency Room Delay

Friday, April 20th, 2007 posted by Mamasaid

According to the parents of an 18 year old boy, hold ups at the Calgary Rockyview hospital and misdiagnoses at a walk in clinic caused the death of their son last month from a ruptured appendix.

Wendy Baseotto said her son Jordan Johanson went to a walk in clinic that prescribed antibiotics because the boy had started to feel sick two days earlier. They antibiotics didn’t seem to help, so the next night Wendy took Jordan to the Rockyview emergency unit on a Saturday at 7:30 pm. Read the rest of this article »

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