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Originally Posted by browna
Not only that, but there is some closure here with that disgusting offseason of 1990.
Denis Morel screwing the Flames out of a Game 7 back in Calgary with his egregious no goal call in OT against the Kings, and the Flames ownership went nuts that next month. Crisp fired, Fletcher put on notice (and left the next year). Joe Mullen, my favourite Flame growing up and only Flames autograph I have, considered too old after his first season in six not scoring 40 goals, blamed and thus shipped off for a 2nd rounder, Nicholas Perrault who played 3 AHL games and that’s it.
Mullen was Traded to the Pens the same day the Pens chose Jagr.
Mullen played another 400+ NHL games, won 2 Cups with Jagr, 160+ goals and 340+ points.
So, 27 years later, closure for that awful trade, amazingly, bringing the superstar player that got drafted by the same team the Flames sent Mullen to that same day. A player and transaction in Mullen who was the symbolic of the start of bad decisions the Flames really never recovered from, as out of the playoffs 2 years later for the first time ever, and arguably for 11 more years until Darryl Sutter pulled them out of the gutter in 2003.
Jagr and Mullen score back to back
40 second mark
Still off the charts in how cool it is to have JJ on the Calgary Flames.
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Ha, Mullen was one of my favourite flames too
however I remember the circumstances of his trade differently
he wanted to play for Badger Bob who was coaching in Pittsburgh and the Flames traded him
very tough we only got a second rounder in return ... at the time I believe he was the highest scoring US player ever
loved his game