[Sylvanfan]

I remember an interview that Bill Clement did where a lot of the guys on the team really were not happy with the team relocating to Calgary. Many guys had wives/girlfriends from the Atlanta area who had no interest in coming to an outpost like Calgary. At the time Calgary was a lot rougher than it is today. But compared to Atlanta it was really small, really expensive, and really cold.

One of the results was that the guys actually were able to keep pretty focused on hockey the first season. But I think by year two, many of the Atlanta hold overs wanted to be moved elsewhere, and Fletcher was somewhat forced to reshape the team into the Calgary Flames as opposed to continuing on the Atlanta Flames.

This is about one year before my time as I remember the 82 games against Vancouver vaguely.