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Originally Posted by looooob
I'm going to lose my old guy membership card here, but I don't think I can vote Hrdina- I mean I really really liked the guy, came over as an older veteran and a stabilizing piece of the cup team. in his 5 year NHL career won 3 cups. but he was mostly injured during the 89 cup run and had only really the one big season
also considered : Clark, Hislop, Eaves
Bourque was everything Hrdina was not- undisciplined, frustrating etc. but had a longer tenure and was really one of the Flames top players for a few seasons. I'm not a huge Bourque fan but I'm going to vote for him
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Full agreement with Hrdina. 1 assist in 11 playoff games over 3 years. He was a nice guy, good for a funny quote, and a decent hockey player that would’ve been more impactful if he came here earlier. Brian MacClellan played more in 1989, was more productive in that “veteran role” in that same time period for 3 seasons, and he is on no ones radar for #27.
Can’t give it to Bourque though, for the goal scoring ability he had, he was also all kinds of clueless, highlighted by the time he skated around with a fully broken stick for about 10 seconds and refs after yelling at him finally had to call a penalty on him.
Clark is up there. Underrated on the 2004 team, goals tying the Canucks 4-4 to complete the comeback in Game 6 round 1, and got the Flames started in Game 6 vs Tampa were memorable, and played an honest game throughout.
I was in awe that we could trade the worst player in the Flames history (Hulse)and it netted us a legit player in Sergei Krivokrasov, and he was talented at other stops, so that had me excited, for the cup of coffee he had here. Lost him in the expansion draft I believe at the end of that year.
I’ll go off the board here. Godard. Became the heavyweight champion of the league here, for a few seasons, after his defeat of Boogaard, and played himself off the team because he was too good of a fighter and no one in the division wanted to engage him. (Huggy bear Stortini, for one, after his first encounter)