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Calgary Flames fail to give John Ramage a qualifying offer

Rob Ramage sipped from the Stanley Cup with the Calgary Flames in 1989.

If his son, John, gets his hands on the shiny silverware, it will be with another NHL team.

John Ramage was among the hat-trick of restricted free-agents who didn’t receive a qualifying offer from the Flames prior to Monday’s deadline.

The 24-year-old defenceman now becomes an unrestricted free agent.

“That was a tough one for me, quite frankly, because John is an excellent person,” said Flames GM Brad Treliving. “He’s a tremendous human being. He’s what we want in the organization, in terms of the personality.