Looks like starting tomorrow on Calgaryflames.com there will be a countdown of the 37 most memorable moments in Flames history. This will be a good chance to talk about each moment and what it means for us.
Frolik's goal with 7 seconds left against Edmonton, the only game I've ever seen the Flames play on the road.
Bringing an "Iginla's Better than Gretzky" sign to a game against the Oilers when I was a kid. We held the sign up in warmups and Iginla saw it and laughed. He then scored a hat trick and the Flames won 6-1. After the game I waited by the parking lot and he stopped and talked to us. Such a cool night.
Game three against the Canucks in '04, the loudest game I've ever been to and my first ever taste of playoff hockey for the Flames. My ears were ringing that whole night. Flames lost the game but was still awesome to be a part of that atmosphere.
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While I was alive for our Stanley cup, I was only 4, so I don't really remember it.
For me, the best memory, by a long shot, was the 03-04 run.
After they, game 6 against Vancouver in 15. I was at the game, and the arena was just bananas.
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Clearly the fourth line start with Bob Hartley and Torts should be there as well. The shenanigans was the start of The Canucks post apex downward trend that I have enjoyed for so many years.
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Kippers last home game was a huge one for me. Was the first time I'd been to a game in about 10 years and it sucked me back into following the team closely again. I lost my voice that night
It was standing room only when the Flames debuted in Calgary
The crowd that curtain-raising night, 7,243, was awfully tiny by, say, Madison Square Garden or Joe Louis Arena standards.
But there wasn't a square inch of spectator real estate to be had.
Oct. 9, 1980.
"It felt,'' recalls Flames' defenceman Bob Murdoch, accustomed to infinitely larger venues such as the Omni in Atlanta or the Montreal Forum, "as if we were playing in a phone booth."
Within the scope of NHL buildings, the rustic Calgary (now: Stampede) Corral gave the term "intimate" a whole new meaning.
"What amazed me,'' Calgary's GM of the time, Cliff Fletcher, says now, "is that we'd been able to sell standing-room season tickets. I think they were $25 bucks a game.
"A lot of money back then. To stand. But you had a number, so no one could stand in your spot.
"That blew my mind.
"The fans were charged up. They were into it."
That first-ever game for the relocated Flames ended in a 5-5 tie.
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Given the high boards, claustrophobic atmosphere, the Flames thrived in their temporary home while the bright, shiny new Olympic Saddledome was going up across the way.
"The crazy thing about the Corral,'' muses Murdoch, "was that our dressing room was on the other side of the lobby so that the end of every period and beginning of the next period we'd have to walk through the crowd to reach the ice surface.
"If you'd had a bad game …
"They had cardboard down so we wouldn't wreck the edges of our skates.
"On those walks, you got to know people. So you'd be heading out for a period, recognize someone who was there every game and say 'Hey, Bill, how's it going?' on the way out to play.
"You don't get that at many other rinks."
Over the course of that inaugural season, the Flames would compile a 25-5-10 record while inside the cozy confines of the Corral.
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Just a woe is me comment, I guess.
The playoffs are in full swing and Flames website has us re-living great moments of yesterday. I look forward to the day when the Flames are able to do that stuff in the off season because we are busy watching Flames playoff hockey.
One of my favorite memories is not exactly a Flames memory. I could not have been very old. My Dad pointed me to an article in the Herald. This was before the Flames moved here.
Calgary had just acquired a NHL franchise. They had gotten a couple of star players to agree to come here. Bobby Orr was going to try a comeback. New arena was being fast tracked. For season opener, they had coaxed the Beatles to reunite. I was slobbering with excitement. It was written in the paper. It was the truth.
Flames Most Memorable Moments
