Two years later Chris Gratton was making >$10,000,000 (USD). Inflation-adjusted that's the equivalent of about $17.6M in today's dollars. Can you imagine a player like Chris Gratton making that kind of scratch in today's NHL? Absolutely ####ing bananas how quickly NHL player salaries escalated in the 1990s.
Here's some fun Chris Gratton facts that have a Flames angle:
Over the course of his career Gratton was involved in trades for: Daymond Langkow, Cory Sarich, Wayne Primeau and Derek Morris.
The last trade he was involved in was for a 2nd Round Pick that the Panthers used to select Jakob Markstrom.
Here's some fun Chris Gratton facts that have a Flames angle:
Over the course of his career Gratton was involved in trades for: Daymond Langkow, Cory Sarich, Wayne Primeau and Derek Morris.
The last trade he was involved in was for a 2nd Round Pick that the Panthers used to select Jakob Markstrom.
The Chris Gratton trades worked out incredibly well for the Flyers. So he was initially signed as a free agent and they had to give the Lightning four first round picks, which they then traded back to the Flyers in exchange for Mikael Renberg and Karl Dykhuis. A couple of years later they decide that was a bad idea and both teams just switch players again. This time the Lightning throw in a disappointing prospect, Damian Langkow. So Langkow plays better for the Flyers, gets traded to the Coyotes for a first and a second round round pick.
The first round pick turns into Jeff Carter. Who then gets turned into Voracek, Couturier, and Cousins. This free agent signing and trades have been paying off for the Flyers for almost 30 years.
I still can't imagine giving up four first round picks for Chris Gratton though!
Just catching up here but great to see this thread back from from the dead. BobbyLouie kept a lot of us going during Covid with his epic 88-89 game log thread. I still revisit that from time to time.
BL, I still get a kick out of that story you told, at the end of the thread, about meeting a mystery man in a mall parking lot to exchange video footage of a game you were looking for. Legendary!
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Just catching up here but great to see this thread back from from the dead. BobbyLouie kept a lot of us going during Covid with his epic 88-89 game log thread. I still revisit that from time to time.
BL, I still get a kick out of that story you told, at the end of the thread, about meeting a mystery man in a mall parking lot to exchange video footage of a game you were looking for. Legendary!
Nov 4, 1967. Philadelphia at Montreal. "Borrowed" from the vaults of the CBC to be copied, then later returned without anybody being the wiser.
The funny thing is that after searching for it for almost 50 years, I sorta miss the chase and Holy Grail nature of it.
I'm not even sure that finally getting to see it was more enjoyable than the search for it.
Anti-climactic and all.
Just catching up here but great to see this thread back from from the dead. BobbyLouie kept a lot of us going during Covid with his epic 88-89 game log thread. I still revisit that from time to time.
BL, I still get a kick out of that story you told, at the end of the thread, about meeting a mystery man in a mall parking lot to exchange video footage of a game you were looking for. Legendary!
You have anything on Flames VS Leafs March 13 2003.
First game I attended that they won I believe.
Request received. I'll be a little busy the next 24 hours and need
to re-format the original material to be able post it here.
However, scanning the original I can't help but tease this one tidbit that sort of stands out.
Context: The trade deadline had passed two days earlier on March 11....
You have anything on Flames VS Leafs March 13 2003.
First game I attended that they won I believe.
This is probably one of the longer reports since it came just days
after an extremely busy trade deadline and happens to include a lot
of sidebars and obscure references and probably most importantly,
a picture of Anna Kournikova.
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Sheesh. Is that the exact moment where Killer hurt his knee? It looks to be a bit twisted in the photo.
Also, I had forgotten that Jagr had a gambling issue. Didn't that come back to bite him again a few years later?
BL, while you're at it. How about something fun? Can you post the recap to the infamous 13-1 game against SJ in the '93 season. Thanks!
Hang in there ECFF. The game you just requested might be the longest report in Flames' history,
with 14 goals, an incredibly lengthy and complicated injury list, a deep dive into the Flames' record book,
several notable out-of-town happenings, and an upcoming scheduled neutral site game.
The multiple pages from my original file will take me a day or two to format correctly for CP.
Holy moly, I was at Doug Gilmours final game. Wild.
looking at that Leafs roster/lineup , holy Former or future Flames connections- Kidd, ,Housley, Roberts, Svehla, Reichel, Nolan, Hoglund, Gilmour, Belak (Stajan, Ericksson, Gavey amongst others also suited up for the Leafs at some point that year)
