Calgary Flames

I remember way back in 1980 when the Atlanta Flames moved to Calgary to become our new NHL franchise. I was 10 years old back in those days. I remember going to the Stampede Corral to watch them play before the Pengrowth Saddledome ever existed. It was a lot of fun and I still enjoy going to the Flames games today. The highlight of the Flames has got to be the 1988-89 season when the Flames won the Stanley Cup. They beat Vancouver Canucks in 7 games in the opening series. The Flames eventually went on to beat the Montreal Canadians in 6 games to capture the Stanley Cup. Oh those were the days....

Once again the Calgary Flames disappoint their fans. For the 7th straight year they have missed the playoffs. I believe that ties an NHL record. Lets hope we don't break the record. The team started off to a slow start and pretty much were trying to keep up to the rest of the pack in the Western Conference all year. After the firing of Greg Gilbert as head coach and the eventual hiring of Darryl Sutter, the team seemed to pick up the pace. Unfortunately it was too little to late. A good move in my opinion was letting Craig Button go. He has made some good moves and some bad ones. The Marc Savard debacle comes to mind. With Darryl Sutter taking over the duties as GM as well as head coach, he will be very busy, but I think he is going in the right direction. The team has talent and they are a hard working team. I hope they keep up the hard work and hopefully it will pay off.

One interesting thing, I think the Flames have the most active former players in the league. It seems to be more than any other team. I put together a listing of current active Former Flames in the NHL. Notice the great names that have come through Calgary

2002-03 Regular Season Statistics

POS	NO.	PLAYER	GP	G	A	PTS	PIM	PP	SH	GW	GT
R	12	Jarome Iginla	75	35	33	68	42	11	3	6	2
C	22	Craig Conroy	79	23	36	59	34	5	0	1	2
C	18	Chris Drury	80	23	30	53	33	5	1	5	1
L	23	Martin Gelinas	81	21	32	53	51	6	0	3	1
C	11	Stephane Yelle	82	10	18	28	48	3	0	3	0
D	32	Toni Lydman	81	6	20	26	28	3	0	0	1
R	17	Chris Clark	80	10	12	22	118	2	0	1	2
L	19	Oleg Saprykin	52	8	14	22	44	1	0	1	1
D	6	Bob Boughner	69	3	14	17	123	0	0	1	0
L	10	Dave Lowry	34	5	11	16	20	1	0	0	0
D	4	Jordan Leopold	58	4	9	13	10	3	0	0	0
D	3	Denis Gauthier	72	1	11	12	95	0	0	1	0
D	28	Robyn Regehr	76	0	12	12	80	0	0	0	0
C	40	Scott Nichol	68	5	6	11	147	0	1	0	0
R	24	Blake Sloan	67	2	8	10	26	0	0	0	0
D	8	Petr Buzek	44	3	5	8	14	3	0	0	0
L	26	Steve Begin	49	3	1	4	45	0	0	1	0
L	27	Craig Berube	40	2	2	4	73	0	0	1	0
C	15	Blair Betts	9	1	3	4	0	0	0	0	1
D	21	Andrew Ferrence	16	0	4	4	6	0	0	0	0
R	16	Shean Donovan	13	1	2	3	7	0	0	1	0
D	42	Micki DuPont	16	1	2	3	4	0	0	0	0
D	5	Steve Montador	50	1	1	2	107	0	0	0	0
D	2	Mike Commodore	6	0	1	1	14	0	0	0	0
L	37	Dean McAmmond	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
D	51	Rick Mrozik	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0