Glen Gulutzan wasted no time in sparking controversy during Friday's first day of on-ice sessions when he split up the 3M line, the Calgary Flames wildly successful second line of Matthew Tkachuk, Mikael Backlund, and Michael Frolik and placed Emile Poirier in Frolik's spot.
This normally would have set the team's local Twitter fans on fire (then again, what doesn't?) with frantic messages, wondering if the head coach was still on summer vacation mode.
But instead of instant drama, most were consumed with the back-and-forth between Calgary Sports and Entertainment Corporation president Ken King and Mayor Naheed Nenshi over a new area proposal Friday morning.