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The Calgary Flames now have a direct connection to the Kansas City area after signing an affiliation agreement with the Kansas City Mavericks professional hockey team.
The Mavericks previously were affiliated with the New York Islanders, but the National Hockey League team announced in May that it didn’t renew the agreement. The Islanders instead signed an ECHL affiliation (AA hockey) with the Worchester Railers, a team much closer to its AAA affiliate, the Bridgeport Sound Tigers. It left the…