Was pretty young around this time and had only started watching this team regularly for a few years. So my memory isn’t great, but I do remember all the hockey cards I was collecting around this time; buying random assorted packs for a buck a piece at the local collector shop in Franklin Mall.
Random Memories:
- Val Bure crushing it that one season, think he made the All Star team that year with his brother Pavel on team World
- Iggy’s award winning breakout season and extremely hot start, think he had 20 goals in 20 games right out of the gate with Connie centering him
- If memory served, Fred Brathwaite made an insane stick save along the goal line vs the Wings
- Greg Gilbert’s unhappy face for whatever reason has been ingrained into my mind
- Jeff Shantz taking faceoffs
- The short lived Daniel Tkaczuk hype
- Igor Kravchuk’s name plate for some reason
- Martin St Louis’ rookie year, man did he look tiny on the ice
- Jason Weimer flying down the ice, was he fast?
- Andrei Nazarov hype?
- I remember not liking Cale Hulse for whatever reason
- Tommy Albelin’s strange looking visor
- Grant Fuhr giving up goals from 50 feet out
- Mike Vernon’s final seasons in the NHL
- Roman Turek’s outstanding start that resulted in a regrettably new monster contract
- My first NHL game in 2002, remember Chris Drury scoring on a breakaway vs Buffalo
- Kipper trade: from what I remember, he wore an all white mask, he won 5 or 6 straight games and then got lit up by Colorado? Then was injured shortly after.
- Flames PPV road games, anyone else remember those?
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