"The trailers and coming-soons are finished. Finally, the lights in the theatre are dimming to blackness, the popcorn is choked in butter (or a reasonable facsimile) and the feature presentation set to flicker across the screen. Get out your 3-D glasses and settle in. Prep-time, play-time, tinker-time is over. "Yeah. Definitely. You talk to most of the veterans and it's time to start,'' agreed left-winger Alex Tanguay, after a 1-0 Sunday victory over the Edmonton Oilers that ran the Calgary Flames' exhibition record to a pristine 7-0 in advance of Thursday's 2010-2011 curtain-raiser at Rexall Place. "It's fun to get the pre-season underway. It's fun to have the record we do in pre-season. We did a lot of good things. We built good habits. "But now we're looking forward to getting into that 'real-game' mode where you have to win and there are no excuses.'' The road to retribution, the path to vindication, starts now. And undoubtedly among the most pleasant indicators for a return to April's Sweet Sixteen - and yes, yes, we're ONLY talking pre-season here - has been the play of Tanguay, seeking to re-establish his good name after failed and forgettable stints in his backyard in Montreal and the idyllic wilds of Tampa Bay. Sunday night, as the two arch-nemesis played out the pre-season string, the man entrusted to choreograph the Flames' top line scored the game's lone goal (sheepishly prodding a loose puck past a befuddled Devan Dubynk, while the Oiler netminder scoured the ice in and around his crease, apparently under the belief that loose change had been dropped there) to wind up leading the team in pre-season points, at six, played powerplay and PK, and even took a turn five-on-five on the blueline!" http://www.calgaryherald.com/sports/hockey/calgary-flames/Road retribution begins/3618178/story.html
