Sure, he was a tough guy so he is going to be bad. Also, zero expectations on him other than fight.
Plays opening game against league garbage Oilers in 2010. Flames get dummied 4-0, Ivanans then fights Steve MacIntyre.
I'm thinking, well at least we can beat the crap out of them... proceeds to get knocked the #### out.
2 seasons, 2 games, 1 fight. Gone.
at least he tried to do something
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Was Backstrom even an experiment? I remember him being a ‘makes the money work’ part of a larger transaction, and that he agreed to waive his NTC because the Flames promised him some starts.
At least Wilm had a couple 10-goal seasons for the Flames. He played 70 games in Toronto and had 1 goal.
The remembrance around Wilm was when the Flames gave him a low offer in free agency and he went to Nashville, his agent came out very publicly and said the Flames were cheap and made a huge mistake and that, given the right situation, his client could be a 20 goal scorer.
He scored 5 in Nashville in his one year there, playing all 82. He played 80 games over 2 years with the Leafs and got 1 goal. Then 40 games in Sweden the next year and got 13. And 9 goals in 40 games the year after in Sweden. So his agent was right, he was a 20 goal scorer in top league hockey, it just took 5 calender years to do it.
Being a Flames fan since 2015, I can only put names from the current era:
James Neal
Mike Smith
Troy Brouwer
Niklas Grossmann
Jonathan Huberdeau
Brett Ritchie
Nikita Nesterov and Dominik Simon from the 2020-21 North Division season were too disappointing for me. Didn't even officially score goals SMH.
Nah. Dude played pretty well when he was here, and was absolute gold in shootouts. Pretty sure he scored every single time, and he always had a different move.
My vote goes to Neal. Signs his big free agent contract and then pulls a complete no-show for his entire tenure as a Flame. Easily one of the worst signings in franchise history.
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I'm surprised some people are acting like Bertuzzi was good as a Flame.
He was bad. I remember an article that offseason with him stating everytime the phone rang he hoped it was Sutter calling to offer him another contract.
Thankfully that call never came.
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I'm surprised some people are acting like Bertuzzi was good as a Flame.
He was bad. I remember an article that offseason with him stating everytime the phone rang he hoped it was Sutter calling to offer him another contract.
Thankfully that call never came.
15 goals and 44 points for $1.9M? Just fine. Was one of the only effective players vs Chicago in the playoffs that year.
They replaced him with Nolan for a one year contract.
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